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1 ACCELERATE INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION WITH ERP Building a Cost-Effective Foundation to Enable Growth

2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Whether your business has, or plans to have multiple divisions or international operations, establishing a consistent system for managing information can be challenging for a number of reasons. When adding a new line of business, acquiring a company, or growing into new territories, it can seem convenient to have independent applications (or individual instances of the same ERP) for these different entities. However, any short-term benefits of this approach will be outweighed by long-term challenges caused by disconnected systems that inhibit the ability to obtain true company-wide visibility into business performance. This white paper examines the characteristics that you need in your ERP for the software to effectively support your international growth. It explains why there is a right-way and a wrong-way to expand your business, and provides a high-level checklist of capabilities you should demand of any ERP that you intend to use to enable the growth of your business.

3 EXPANDING YOUR BUSINESS WITH AN ERP To growth your company, you need to be at the right place at the right time geographically to ensure you don t miss opportunities to win new customers. Depending on the size of your business, this could be an expanded presence in your current territory, a new region in a country, or a presence in an entirely new country. Regardless of how you decide to expand or when you decide to expand, an ERP will significantly increase your ability to succeed in different ways in each of these scenarios. To make these issues more concrete, let s quickly review the role an ERP solution can play in three different expansion scenarios: regional, Eurozone, and international. Regional - Expanding into a new region creates challenges around organizational independence between business groups and can compromise your ability to maintain consistent business processes. An ERP can automatically enforce standard processes (such as discounting, payroll, etc ), regardless of where sales or inventory are physically located. Eurozone - Expanding within the European Union can create obvious language issues for ordering, documentation and receivables. It can also trigger complicated challenges around product traceability in. An ERP will provide a foundation for multi-language support and traceability, and if it has language sensitive logic can enable users to automatically view product information in the appropriate language. International - Expanding internationally beyond simply accepting multiple currencies, you ll need to manage variable exchange rates, differing accounting standards and very complex issues surrounding revaluation of product/inventory. An ERP can help you meet the toughest of these challenges in a consistent format so you can focus on growing your business instead of trying to untangle a web currencies and exchange rates. As you can see, whether you re expanding regionally, within the Eurozone, or internationally any type of geographic expansion will create new challenges for your business. By adopting a single ERP, when you encounter these challenges, you ll have a common infrastructure throughout your operations that can automate and streamline key business processes and set the stage for growth but, it s not that easy. Like most things, there s a right way and a wrong way to do this.

4 THE WRONG WAY: INDEPENDENT ERP APPLICATIONS During the early stages of expansion, it s often tempting to allow new entities to select and deploy software independent from the parent company. This can take the form of a specialized application, or a new and separate instance of the ERP used by the parent company. If you think that most ERP solutions on the market today can provide a unified view into multiple divisions of a company, and/or operations of a company in multiple countries you ll be surprised by the reality that very few ERPs can actually support this type of deployment. This is because many ERP solutions cannot support multiple localizations (as in language and currency), or multiple accounting and legal standards in the same instance. For simplicity s sake, whether it s specialized applications or multiple instances of an ERP, let s call this the independent application approach. Initially this approach can be helpful for a new division, however, allowing independent applications to proliferate within a company ultimately creates challenges that impair business performance and cause considerable expense. This is because when the application that manages a business unit is disconnected from your central ERP, it creates dangerous blind spots where companies can lose visibility into expenses, inventory, profitability and more. For example, if you use an independent application to manage a regional expansion or new line of business, the data in that system becomes isolated from your overall business. You then lose the ability to roll-up accounting and financial performance data from a company-wide perspective - unless you create and maintain custom application integrations or build a data warehouse to consolidate data from multiple applications. The expense of pursuing such a strategy can balloon quickly you can see how and why this can happen in Table 1 Single ERP vs. independent application cost comparison. SINGLE ERP Table 1 Single ERP vs. independent application cost comparison INDEPENDENT APPLICATIONS Hardware ERP license ERP deployment ERP support Hardware Application license for each business unit: A, B, C, etc. Application deployment for each business unit: A, B, C, etc. Application support for each business unit: A, B, C, etc. Middleware Database and DBMS for Data Warehouse Application integrations Data model maintenance Data archiving Meta-data infrastructure population Client-side application updates (for systems that are not web based)

5 Even if you can make independent applications work from a technology and cost perspective, there are a host of other challenges this approach will cause your business, including: Lack of real-time visibility Insights from independent applications inherently suffer from significant lag-times because applications that submit data to a master repository do so on standard reporting periods such as the end of a month or quarter. The lack of real-time visibility impairs decision-making and slows business agility, which can cause you to miss opportunities or fail to see problems before they damage your profits. Redundant operations Realizing cost-savings from consolidated operations such as HR and Accounting is difficult when divisions use independent applications. This is because each application instance will have it s own set of data and rules that require individual managers. Inconsistent business practices Price lists, product descriptions, and other sales tool must be manually updated to each independent application. This creates more management overhead and introduces potential inconsistencies in pricing, discounting, shipping and a host of other customer-facing activities. Increased sys-admin cost Each independent application a corporation adds will create the need for more sys-admin resources to deploy and maintain it. So, as the number and complexity of your applications increase, so too will your sys-admin costs. Expensive period-close Even with a data center, pulling information from independent applications is a costly and time-consuming operation to ensure data is formatted and consolidated in the proper fashion. Once established, if even a single contributing application submits data differently, the entire period close can be delayed, or worse yet, finalize incorrect data. THE RIGHT WAY: SINGLE ERP APPROACH If all the challenges and costs of using independent applications to support your international growth haven t dissuaded you from that approach, then the benefits of using a single ERP to accomplish the same goals certainly will. One of the most fundamental value propositions of an ERP is that it delivers comprehensive, real-time visibility into the most important operations of your business. However, as mentioned earlier when it comes to international expansion, not all ERPs are created equal. Some solutions have rudimentary functionality out-of-the-box that later requires expensive localization, while others lack the product architecture to support individual divisions of the same company within a single ERP instance. The benefits of the single ERP approach are manifold, but here are some of the highlights: Improve business performance Across business units, regions, and countries with a single, comprehensive management solution. Consolidated financial reporting Multi-currency and multi-language support combine with automated exchange rate updates to deliver accurate reporting. Faster financial period close Real-time visibility and process automation eliminate mistakes and tedious manual data entry and analysis to accelerate the closure of financial reporting periods.

6 Lower operational expenses Consolidate HR, accounting and other horizontal business functions into cost-saving service desks that serve the needs of all employees in all divisions across all geographies. Simplified tax management Automate the application of multiple tax schedules for local taxes across subsidiaries, regionally specific tax incentives, general state or local taxes. Comprehensive visibility into operations Secure, role-based access to data and dashboards enables employees to "drill-down everywhere" to gain instant insight across the corporate hierarchy of subsidiaries. Openbravo believes a single ERP is ideal for multi-national businesses, because it can deliver all the benefits above, plus it s the only reliable and cost-effective way to realize the business benefits of investing in an ERP solution. For some ERPs, a single solution to manage all lines of business can be expensive and time-consuming. However, if you select a modular ERP that has strong core capabilities with pre-built modules - you can add these pitfalls by using a staged implementation. For more background on staged implementations, see the sidebar: Staged Implementations: The key to business continuity with an ERP. Additionally, a modular ERP allows you to continue to leverage any existing applications that support your current business processes and migrate the workload those applications support to your EPR how and when you want to. Regardless of which ERP you select for your business, to ensure it meets the needs of the single ERP approach, you ll want to ensure it has the following characteristics: CAPABILITIES CHECKLIST Web-based To achieve rapid ROI, your ERP should be 100% web-based to avoid costly and time-consuming software updates. By eliminating the headaches caused by code on client applications, a web-based solution dramatically accelerates your speed of deployment. Flexible Organization Model The ability to analyze the performance of independent business units on a country-by-country basis, but at the same time, to realize cost savings by consolidating functions like HR and Accounting. Multi-Currency Support Automating how different currencies, exchange rates, and fees for currency exchange must be supported. Your ERP should also extend to track payment dates and help reconcile issues related to changing exchange rates and shifting values of currencies and inventory. STAGED IMPLEMENTATIONS: The key to business continuity with an ERP When evaluating an ERP, maintaining business continuity for your operations will be of paramount importance. Deploying your ERP in stages is the key to maintaining this continuity. By using a staged approach, you avoid the potential pitfalls of replacing all systems you plan to eliminate with an ERP at once. For example, Large companies with an established ERP infrastructure in several countries, probably want to start at the periphery, deploying a singe ERP for all the new countries first and then replacing more established countries last. On the other hand, smaller organizations with fewer countries and less established ERP solutions already in place should consider starting from a single ERP for the core countries. In some situations, using both your ERP and existing applications simultaneously in a staging environment provides redundancy and is an excellent way to test the performance of the ERP prior to go-live. In this way, you can use an ERP Initially as a data warehouse, then progressively turn off your older systems one by one. Multi-Accounting Standards Support for the ability to have simultaneous views to financial documents including invoices, balance sheets and more using varying accounting standards (such as U.S., Spanish and Chinese). Multi-Language Support International customers will demand invoices and documentation in their native language. Your ERP should also support language sensitive logic that enables the use of a single product code in multiple languages.

7 CAPABILITIES CHECKLIST (cont.) Unicode compliance Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's languages. An ERP should be Unicode compliant in addition to support for bidi (reading in the opposite direction). Role based security Your ERP should be able provide secure, role-based access to functionality and data regarding individual lines of business and international operations on a country-by-country basis. Flexible screen tailoring Your ERP should be able provide the ability to easily tailor screens and deploy changed screens by both Organization and Role. While process standardization is desirable whenever possible, in many cases your various organizations will have specific data elements that are only relevant to them, and this should not pose a problem. International Reporting Requirements Because countries have differing tax laws, regulations and standards, country-specific documentation is needed for international commerce an ERP should streamline these critical reporting requirements. Interoperable To ensure your ERP can work with your existing systems and grow with your business, ensure it can interoperate with other software systems. Generally speaking, open source software uses open standards that greatly facilitate interoperability. Cloud access For deployment flexibility, scalability and affordability, your ERP should be cloud-ready, whether it s going to be deployed on a private hosted environment or on a public cloud like Amazon Web Services (AWS). Modular The ability to add pre-built capabilities to your core ERP as a means to costeffectively add functionality when you need it. This also ensures a small functional footprint for the core application itself, for faster deployment times. Remember that deploying any ERP can be expensive and complicated to your business to avoid any disruption, the most important criteria is to ensure your solution is 100% web-based. This is because a 100% web-based solution eliminates the need for on-premise software, and as a result, you avoid many of the cost overruns and delays associated with sending IT personnel to each of your physical locations to install or troubleshoot your solution. WHEN RIGHT IS NOT FEASIBLE: TWO-TIER ERP APPROACH For large organizations with many entities and operations, deploying ERP from a single vendor may simply not be feasible and forget about a single instance ERP! Consider the dilemma of a large multinational that has spent millions implementing SAP at the corporate headquarters, but finds that it is too complex and expensive to roll out to a number of subsidiaries and field offices. In this case, standardizing on a secondary ERP that is available at a lower-cost is usually the best way to provide a sustainable combination of autonomy, control, and manageability. A web-based ERP like Openbravo can provide these organizations with a flexible solution that is can be a natural complement to a standard corporate ERP.

8 CONCLUSION Growing your business through expansion whether through acquisition, creating new business units, or building operations in new countries presents challenges for every business. Selecting the right technology solution to build a strong foundation for growth that also provides companywide visibility will help you optimize the performance of your new (and existing) business units. Using a Single ERP approach will ensure not only that all business data is available through a single application, but it also creates significant cost savings and minimizes possible technology headaches in the long-term. Openbravo s agile ERP strategy is ideally suited to this scenario because it is modular, intuitive to use, and delivers sustained ROI. If you d like to learn more about how agile ERP from Openbravo can impact the performance of your business, we re here to help. Simply fill out the contact us form at form/customer/ ABOUT OPENBRAVO Downloaded over two million times, Openbravo is the world s leading web-based Open Source ERP solution. The agile ERP company, Openbravo sells its Professional Edition exclusively through a global network of channel partners whose expertise provides rapid, cost-effective implementation services. Openbravo partners also provide deployment expertise for the rapidly growing selection of over 320 Openbravo modules that add localization and rich functionality to the core product. Openbravo has offices in the U.S., Spain, and India.

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