PERSIO EBOLI

Persio Eboli has 14+ years of experience

developing successful high quality systems
consulting services requiring high performance,
scalability, and short response times.
An excellent educational background provides
a solid foundation for the accumulated experience.
Combination of strong business and technical
skills is one of the most valuable professional
capabilities. Experienced in end-to-end projects
in several industries including pharma, MRO,
manufacturing, e-business, etc. Global templates
with rollouts to South America is one the
areas of expertise.
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A BRAZILIAN SAP ROLLOUT:
WHAT TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT BEFORE YOU START? (1/2)
WE ASKED OUR REDSOLUTION ASSOCIATE, PERSIO EBOLI, TO
TELL US WHAT YOU SHOULD INVOLVE IN YOUR PLANNING PHASE
BEFORE YOU START YOUR BRAZILIAN SAP ROLLOUT PROJECT
First implementations of SAP in Brazil occurred
in the mid-90s when the ofcial localization to the
country was released. Even before that there were
some cases of SAP project instances, but I would
not consider them a full solid implementation.
Those were more initiatives around modules
not impacted by local legislation or standalone
implementations totally independent of the
corporate global solution of the company.
Around 1996 you could clearly see the start of
the rst wave of SAP Brazil implementations in
companies already well-established in the country.
Localization for Brazil was very unstable and
the R/3 release was 3.0F. Even though it was not
awless projects as you can imagine, the price of
being the pioneers during those early days was well
worth it as those companies where the founders
and builders of the Brazilian SAP marketplace.
Now Id say we are probably in the third wave,
the second wave being when the electronic nota
scal became mandatory for almost all kind of
business. This new boom is happening because of
the attention the country is getting from the global
business community mainly due to being one of
the members of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India
and China). Several international companies are
starting new operations or expanding their business
or just making their Brazilian operation part of the
corporate solution.
A common question that comes up for these
companies is: Is it possible to do an international
rollout of my global template to Brazil? A straight
answer to this question is: Yes, it is possible and
there are several successful examples of this
but there are adaptations and points of attention
that must be considered for Brazil which I have
attempted to list and highlight in this blog post.
Many of these points are also relevant for new
geographical rollouts to any other countries in
the world, so its worth having them in mind as a
general reminder when doing your project planning.
Besides the cultural specics which you can get
an idea of in a previous associate post by Rodrigo
Cremonini on Cultural differences when doing
international project work in Argentina/LATAM and
similar problems with the language that per se
represents a change management challenge, there
are the business mandatory considerations when
doing a Brazilian rollout.
In Finance the key points to consider are:
> Fiscal Calendar
According to Brazilian legislation it is
mandatory to use scal calendar K4.
Gregorian calendar from January to December.
> Taxes
Standard SAP does deliver a very good solution
for taxes calculation. For both withholding
and sales/purchases taxes it does require
a lot conguration and maintenance, but it
does work well. Using third party software
for this purpose might be possible, but
denitely unusual.
> Payables and Receivables
Electronic banking is a reality in Brazil and
specic payment methods are required such
as boleto, TED, DOC.
> Fixed Assets
After the SPED implementation in the
country it made the xed assets solution
even more specic. There is a specic report
called CIAP that must read data from FI-AM
and also from the nota scal database.
> Statutory Reporting
Most of the reports are standard delivered
by SAP, but it is very common to use third
party software to receive SAP data and
generate all sets of required reports.
> Electronic Nota Fiscal
This subject was already discussed in a
previous blog by me and it is mandatory for
almost all kind of business in Brazil currently.
You can nd my previous blog on Nota Fiscal
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PERSIO EBOLI
Persio Eboli has 14+ years of experience
developing successful high quality systems
consulting services requiring high performance,
scalability, and short response times.
An excellent educational background provides
a solid foundation for the accumulated experience.
Combination of strong business and technical
skills is one of the most valuable professional
capabilities. Experienced in end-to-end projects
in several industries including pharma, MRO,
manufacturing, e-business, etc. Global templates
with rollouts to South America is one the
areas of expertise.
> View all posts by Persio Eboli
A BRAZILIAN SAP ROLLOUT:
WHAT TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT BEFORE YOU START? (2/2)
In logistics and product costing:
> It is mandatory for manufacturing companies
in Brazil to do actual costing for any manufactured
product in the country. This forces the use
for any product resulting from a PP order, to
use standard price and run the material ledger
in the end of the period to do the actual costing;
> Foreign Trade
Export and Import procedures are very specic
and normally requires a lot of conguration in
LE-TRA or acquisition of a specialized third
party software or as last option leave several
manual interactions in the system;
> Outputs
This is normal for every country, but for Brazil
it is really required to design specic forms,
especially in the foreign trade business;
> Sales and Purchasing Pricing Procedures
The tax engine is highly integrated to sales
and purchasing pricing procedures. It is
mandatory in sales to have a specic pricing
procedure for Brazil. For purchasing it is just
recommended in order to help users to
determine the net price/value.
Ive mentioned third party software a few times and
I wanted to refer to another piece written by Javier
Mora on Chilean Electronic invoices where its
common practice to use third party suppliers.
These are the recommended points worth considering
for any project initiative and are a must for Brazil.
Follow Dr. Demings PDCA cycle and keep an eye
on the mentioned points above, get the right people
involved and the Brazil rollout will be a great success.
There is a parallel discussion on this topic within
our Global SAP Forum on LinkedIN, click here to
join and participate.
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