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Investment in Russia and its neighboring countries
requires good controlling tools. An effective
ERP system is key in order not to risk the entire
investment with poor transparency. Those who
implement a full ERP system usually use either SAP
or the Russian accounting
program 1C (pronounced as
“1S”), the latter also has the
capability to go far beyond
Accounting and Taxation.
Very often you hear that
experience in implementing
an ERP system in one of the
other BRICS countries, or even
Eastern European countries
such as Poland or Hungary,
does not necessarily convert
to useful knowledge of ERP in
the Russian market. Another
common misunderstanding
is the assumption that an
SAP team from the HQ office could fully manage the
ERP-implementation in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan,
etc. If the stereotypical generalization that “Russia
is different” is true at all, then it applies here for
ERP systems. In the following pages, my colleagues
will describe for you some specific processing
features in Russia, looking at accounting matters,
tax compliance issues, special features in invoicing
processes, etc.
There is also something for those who have little
hope for Russia’s bureaucracy to shrink: quite a few
“popular” tax forms such as Acceptance Protocol
and VAT-invoices do not need to be printed out and
signed on paper any longer, they can be exchanged
between business partners (B2B) in electronic form
via the Internet. Automation and simplification has
a chance in Russia!
Implementation of SAP or 1C as your ERP system
in Russia is not only a matter of cost but is also a
question of implementing
the compliance rules and
conceptual matters of the
accounting and reporting
systems you believe in. My
colleague, Thomas Titsch, the
responsible Director in our
company for ERP systems,
e x p l a i n s t h e d i f f e r e n t
approaches of the various
systems.
Before you decide which
i s t he be s t ERP s y s t em
for you in Russia and its
neighboring countries, it is
important to properly compare the advantages
and disadvantages of the different systems. Such
a comparison should not end at implementation
considerations, it should also comprise plusses
and minuses after you start using it – expense
calculation for ongoing use of the system as well
as questions of fast availability of new versions,
and also questions of its ongoing conformity with
compliance rules should influence your decision for
one system or the other.
And finally: Get advice from someone who does not
only consult and implement ERP systems, but from
someone who also actively uses the ERP systems.
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