Re: FW: BPCS Brazil Pack

Hi...
I have worked leading projects Internationally for about 17 years. Many of them in Latin America, including Brazil.
I personally don't have experience implementing the Brazil local pack but i can tell you about how much time people on my team spend implementing it and just keeping up with the changes in local regulations there. Without a doubt, in Latin America Brazil has the most complexed taxation and data requirements laws and practices. One of the things that make it complicated in the never ending changes to these. To cope with all these we implement considerable upgrades to the local pack a minimum of twice a year and have IT and business people spend 20 to 30 % of their time during the testing and validation process. Last year was "a bear" as the government introduced considerable changes to generate invoices electronically and send them to customers, improvements to the so call IN86 (similar to electronic data to the IRS in the US), etc. A huge amount of time was spent on this by our local team.
There are very complex and many times convoluted processed to deal with. You need people locally in your company to manage this. Don't trust or even worst delegate this task to Infor or any other company. There are severe penalties for missing a dateline or providing incomplete or incorrect information to government agencies. We could not cope with the complexity of the local pack if we were to manage it remotely.
I hope this helps.
Regards, Jose TorresDirector of Information TechnologyPhelps Dodge International 806 Douglas Rd. Suite 800Coral Gables, FL 33134

From: andrew.guy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:41:15 +0000
Subject: [BPCS-L] FW: BPCS Brazil Pack

Hi All,


Does anyone have experience implementing the Brazil Pack at 8.2?

If so I'd like to hear from you.



Thanks in advance,



Andrew

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