Andrew Karasev

Customizations in general should be avoided and in ERP selection cycle you should find the solution backed by established software vendor which fits to eighty percent or more of your business requirements. If you heard good words from other business owners who are in different industries these are not a final decision making factors.

Let's begin with historical introduction. Traditionally in the United States Employee and Employer contributions to social security fond were equal: FICA and Medicare. When Great Plains Dynamics US Payroll module was introduced back in mid 1990th the same fields was used to calculate and accrue Medicare and FICA portions for both employer and employee.

If you are local business in Moscow then your accounting application might be 1C. However if you are part of the multinational company then 1C might be not too transparent for internal audit and not too friendly for consolidated financial reporting.

If you are reading this publication we assume that you got issues with the quality of specification and programming work in SAP B1 Software Development Kit and possibly in custom table and field setup in user interface as preparation to coding. There might be numerous reasons and we will try to review them and how to find the way out of crisis.

It is common scenario where you are coming through sales cycle, acquiring software licenses and implement ERP system through one consulting organization and then when you are entering in phase two with custom programming requirements then you are selecting somebody who is more technology consulting oriented.

There is popular opinion that Data Transfer Workbench is sort of great tool for initial data migration but when you need ongoing import then you should probably look at SDK programming or ISV tools such as iBolt. We would like to give DTW some credits and in general describe the way of building quasi real time integration.

Modern enterprises often seek the advantages of going internationally and opening facilities in such regions as Brazil, China or Russia. The reasons might be various including cheaper labor cost but often also conquering foreign market and even oil drilling and mining and other activities related to mineral resources

Creating user defined tables and adding fields to existing table directly in user interface are definite pluses. In our case we are consulting Accounting systems implementation, modification, integration and reporting and we would like to give us our opinion on the old way of having your ERP customized in comparison to Business One

ERP vendors are competing in the area of unique business processes where customization is required. The systems architected in previous generation leveraged custom software development in proprietary scripting languages. Good example was Great Plains Dynamics where special programming shell was created and its name is GP Dexterity

ERP applications have their own life cycles and at this time SAP B1 is in expansion mode here in Northern Illinois as well as in the United States. At this point we assume that you have already acquired and implemented Business One and thinking about second phase with custom integration or sophisticated Crystal Report design.