Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains as a new ERP for the manufacturing plant of a multinational corporation in Brazil.

If your company plans to outsource manufacturing to Brazil by purchasing existing facilities there, the first step would be to put in a new management team and review business processes and procedures. The way that comes through is implementing the new ERP/accounting system from scratch. We’ll show you how to implement a new system based on Microsoft Great Plains. You may have two reasons for placing Great Plains, first your company has Great Plains implemented at headquarters and this is a worldwide policy, second if you have a high level ERP at headquarters such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft you could be too complex/expensive for Brazilian facilities. Looking at the Brazilian ERP software market, you’ll find that the leader there is the local ERP application: Microsiga, and it’s relatively easy to implement there; however, you will have language barriers, as well as differences in tax and reporting rules, when you consolidate the returns to the corporate report. Let’s review the Microsoft Great Plains option:

or Licenses. You should consider two options. First, if you host your Brazilian company’s GP database in the US, Europe, Australia, or wherever your headquarters are located, you don’t need to pay an additional fee to Microsoft Business Solutions. You may have connection performance issues, but this is a separate consideration. Alba Spectrum Technologies owns the Brazilian version of Great Plains through our office in Sao Paulo – Enterlogix.com.br. Second option and this is applicable if you have a high level accounting application at the headquarters: you can buy the Brazilian version through Enterlogix.com.br and in this case the price of the software would be about half of what you would pay in the US or the Eurozone.

or Location. Brazil is a large, independent country and people, including executives and accountants, speak Brazilian Portuguese there, not necessarily English. In addition, all reports and local documentation, including expenses and billing, must be in Portuguese. You need a localized version and in the case of Great Plains it is available.

or Implementation. Again keep in mind that Microsiga has a large percentage of the Brazilian ERP market and most local consultants are Microsiga gurus, you probably have to deal with the multinational consulting company with a presence in the US, Europe and Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro.

or Personalization. Microsoft Great Plains remains at the lower end of the pricing pyramid, and therefore, rather than a long implementation cycle, you should expect light to mid-level customization to meet the unique requirements of your business processes. In this case, you need Great Plains Dexterity developers, Modifier/VBA/Continuum, who are working in the Brazilian market.

Final words: Brazil is a great manufacturing location for beverage production, especially related to fruit juice concentrates, food import to the US, restaurant suppliers, car manufacturers, especially in the Salvador area. .

Good luck with the implementation, customization, and integration, and if you have any issues or concerns, we’re here to help! If you want us to do the job, call us São Paulo 55-11-3826-3449! [email protected]