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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc

However, this might be good hope for the future, real lifeshows the pattern, where ecommerce store deploys unique business logic andpricing schemas - and in order to implement these rules you often have toeither do custom ecommerce web development or pick very generic and powerfulecommerce web stores (which may not be necessary integrated with major Smalland midsize business Corporate ERP packages). In this small article we would like to draw the picture in the case ofdeploying and implementing SAP Business One or Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerlyknown as Great Plains Dynamics: 1.       eCommerceextensions.  If you do not have existingecommerce website in production, then for both SB1 and GP, please look forecommerce extensions.  For Dynamics GPlook at GP Business Portal Order Management module.  For SBO review its ecommerce module.  There are ecommerce add-ons on the ISVproducts market for both ERP, out of scope here.  Regarding BP and SB1 ecommerce module, pleasesee presentation and be sure that it fits your requirements at least 95%, asyou may find the solution to be too difficult to customize.  If you find your case resolved, we are happyfor you, for the rest of us, let's go to the next paragraph 2.       Realtime versus Batch mode integration.  Now,you are trying to find reasonably priced integration technology, allowing youto export ecommerce documents: invoices, sales orders, price lists into yournew ERP and potentially integrate back to ecommerce document status from theERP.  You may decide to start in yourpilot mode with Batch mode integration, where you initiate data synchronizationby calling user friendly integration tool. In the case of SB1 you can deploy Data Transfer Workbench with AdvancedODBC Sources and Dynamics GP has Integration Manager module.  Real time integration, as you could expectrequires custom programming, in the case of SB1 it is SAP Business One SDKcoding, and in GP it is eConnect.  BotheConnect and SB1 SDK could be a way to go if you need very advanced customecommerce integration, especially when you are large company and can affordecommerce to ERP integration budget 3.       DocumentStatus export back to ecommerce.  Here insimple and inexpensive scenario you read Dynamics GP tables: SOP10100,SOP10200, or in SB1: OINV or INV1.  Inboth cases, please review Dynamics GP or SAP Business One SDK helpdocumentation, where you can review table structure.  How you update statuses in eCommerce, pleasereview your ecommerce application documentation, or talk to your in-houseecommerce programmers 4.       Documentsposting in accounting application.  InSAP B1, when you add Invoice - it automatically posts itself all the way throughGeneral Ledger, so posting is available to SB1 SDK developer.  In Dynamics GP, in contrast you have moreflexibility in batch reviewing and approving, however this flexibility blocksyou from posting GP SOP batches directly from eConnect methods, as Batch andTransaction Posting is in GP user competence and eConnect can only createso-called Work documents and place them into the Batch.  To offer you work around for eConnectecommerce programmer we created Alba Spectrum Posting Server, where you place batchinto queue table and Autopost launches posting process automatically 5.       MasterSlave scenario.  You should decide ifyour Corporate ERP (Dynamics GP or SAP Business One) should become Master inentering initial Inventory Items, Price Lists, Promotion Campaign,  etc. and then uploading these objects toecommerce or this role is for your ecommerce application - then SB1 is Slaveand ecommerce is sort of Master.  Thisdecision should orient you in strategy and potentially avoid long decisionmaking IT meetings.  Normally, for theMaster application you should have very high level of comfort in technicalknowledge and be confident in its future, as Slave role is less critical andmaybe in the future remapped to something else 6.       Howto get help?  Please call us1-866-528-0577, internationally: 1-630-961-5918, or email us:[email protected].  We are alsocomfortable to help you if you are international client, we speak English,Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Chinese. SB1 is localized for numerous countries and it supports Unicode (Chinese,Japanese, Korean hieroglyphs).  SAPBusiness One or Dynamics GP licenses sale or reenrolling you into MS or SAPannual support program is possible if you are orphan client.  We will help you if you need to implement andintegrate Timesheets in Microsoft CRM and upload them to SB1 or GP as Invoices,feel free to call us for details