Small Business ERP: Dynamics GP or SAP Business One by Andrew Karasev

Corporate ERP and MRP application selection process is not an easy fun. ERP application may ruin your business, if it is too expensive in the sense of users licenses and ERP implementation consulting cost. At the same time, corporate ERP is capable to boost your small or mid-size business to new sales and profit goals achievements. If you are very small business we recommend you to review such packages as Peachtree, Quickbooks, MYOB, Microsoft Small Business Accounting. However if you feel that you have already outgrew these small business accounting packages, we recommend you to consider Dynamics GP Great Plains, coming from Microsoft, and SAP Business One MRP and ERP, coming from SAP. Both are recognized ERP brands, and both have strong vendor commitment and solid customer support

1. Alba Spectrum recommendation. If your small business has the need in solid discrete manufacturing, we would recommend SAP B1 over Dynamics GP. In the case of Dynamics GP Business Ready, you have access to Bill of Materials extension to GP inventory control. SB1 has Production module plus MRP wizard. Great Plains has similar functionality in POP replenishment wizard, however implementation is more expensive and not so intuitive as you could expect from SAP BO

2. HR and Payroll. If you are Payroll services outsourcing small or mid-size business, Great Plains with its US or Canadian Payroll modules and HR are the ways to go. SB1 has HR module, which fits to employee selection and recruiting process as well as to certification tracking, but if you are looking for SBO Payroll module, you will be redirected to third party ISV add-ons

3. Latest Versions. Great Plains 10.0 (January 2009) and Sap Business One 2007A (also January 2009 for US and Canadian ERP markets)

4. Data Mining and Data Warehousing. Both SAP B1 and Dynamics GP are MS SQL Server based, and you can deploy SQL Server Analytical processes with Excel Pivot tables to implement Datawarehosing and OLAP reporting. In Great Plains you can also deploy Analytical Accounting and FRx forecaster


About the Author

About Alba Spectrum. Alba Spectrum LLC, help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, http://www.albaspectrum.com. Serving ERP and MRP: Great Plains and now SAP Business One community since 1994, local service in Chicago, Houston, San Diego, Atlanta. Information portal: http://www.pegasplanet.com



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