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There is wisdom in what Jose Torres has written.
I have a great deal of respect for Jose and can testify that his experience in
Brazil has been extensive and robust. El sabe.
My experience in Brazil dates back into the 1980s. The IT priority there
has been and continues to be: cope with statutory chaos. Other Latin
American nations have plenty of statutory complexity too, but Brazil is the
most challenging for ERP systems invented elsewhere.
Operating in Brazil is simpler now than it used to be back in the days of
extreme hyperinflation. We invented an accounting approach which
enabled authentic measurement of Latin American financial performance.
It was a very sophisticated monetary correction algorithm. It passed FASB and
GAAP standards when reviewed by external auditors in the USA.
We called it "Constant Currency Accounting."
High inflation accounting info: www.upisox.com/hyperinflation/inflationBear-s.pdf
Brazil letter:
www.unbeatenpathintl.com/letter-of-recommendation/Latin-America/SCJ-Pease.pdf
From: Jose Torres
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] 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 complex 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 worse 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 Torres
Director of Information Technology
Phelps Dodge International
806 Douglas Rd. Suite 800
Coral 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,
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