Services (SAP & Manhattan)
Management & Technology
Implementation & Upgrades
- SAP AFS experience since V 1.0 and since first implementation in Brazil back in 2006;
- SAP Retail experience also integration both ERPs – AFS and Retail;
- Best of breed architecture: SAP and Manhattan running together;
- Supply Chain suite by Manhattan platform.
Roll Out to Latam
Our team has been involved in multiple global template programs to rollout the solution to Latam, especially to Mexico and Brazil. Our involvement can start with business assessment, fit gap until after go-live support. We know that companies invest in harmonized processes and hence it not about reinventing the wheel when it comes to rolling out the solution. In fact it is about catering for legal requirements in each country when running the template. However impacts are often under- or overestimated, where in consequence the wrong rollout approach lead to project failure – expensive try. We can help to answer challenging questions such as:
SAP ECC
How do you reflect your process to government restrictions?
Do you need to upgrade before you activate the country version? What are the pitfalls when localizing industry solutions like SAP AFS, where master data has dimensions and need statutory reporting?
Some sample paradigms: Do you know the areas where your template needs special attention within the ECC? Yes, 90% of localization efforts are within the ECC platform even if you decided to integrate bolt-on solutions. Besides the industry solution might increase the complexity of localizing the ECC solution.
Often it is thought firstly that the localization resides entirely in the Finance (FI) modules and bolt-on solutions will do all the rest which turn out to be quite incorrect. As an example, Brazil will have impacts on your ECC setting up, such as: Organizational Structure, Master Data for local classification and tax determination, Financial Accounting, Asset Accounting, Costing and valuation, Multiple Brazilian Taxes and the complex calculation, Brazilian Fiscal Documents, Brazilian Process flows in SD and MM (potentially require new order types, item categories, stock movement types, etc.) , Legal and fiscal reporting.
How do use stock categories within AFS when possibly the classification is different per stock segment and all tax determination is different on each segment? Does it co-impact your Allocation run?
Bolt-On
Do you require bold on Solutions? If yes, will you consider building it into your ECC environment or will you rather go for the side-car approach (outside ECC)? Either way does it work with your industry solution such as SAP AFS or Retail? Who will support the solution after go-live?
And: as global player you might look into a rollout program that will consider all Latam? What are the options to cater e.g. for Mexican, Chilean, Argentinian and Brazilian e-Invoicing?
