Bista Solutions is one of the early OpenERP providers in North America. We have US offices in San Diego, California and Atlanta, Georgia. Our Canadian office is located in Waterloo, Ontario. We also have a development centre in Mumbai, India. We are currently rated as a Silver partner in US and have been nominated as one of the top 3 partners for the Americas for 2013. We have implemented OpenERP for companies in the telecom, manufacturing and ecommerce verticals. We have helped our clients replace SAP, File Maker, Sage, Expandable and other systems with OpenERP. Some of the important modules that we have developed are UPS, USPS, FedEx, Canada Post integration for shipping Integration with eBay and Amazon for online-sellers UPS Warehousing integration for Logistics Integration with Authorize.NET for credit cards Integrated with credit card reader for in store sales Integrated Jasper Reports with OpenERP to provide advanced reporting and BI Capabilities Migrated data to OpenERP using open source ETL Talend. Integrated OpenERP with Arena PLM for Electronic Change Management.

1. BISTA SOLUTIONS INC
SUMMARY
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2. INTRODUCTION
• Established in the year 2007.
• Silver OpenERP partner in USA
• Nominated as the top 3 partners for the Americas in 2013
• North America Offices in San Diego, Atlanta and Waterloo with
development center in Mumbai, India.
• Amongst the earliest partners of OpenERP in North America.
• OpenERP partners both in US and Canada
• Experience in migrating companies from legacy / proprietary ERP
systems to open-source.
• Industry verticals
o Manufacturing
o Online Sellers
o Professional Services

3. OPENERP EXPERTISE
• Developed customizations and implemented OpenERP for the North
American market.
• Specialization in larger implementations of OpenERP.
• Expertise in customizations of OpenERP and integrations with other
systems.
• Contributed numerous modules for North American requirements,
including following.
o UPS, USPS, FedEx, Canada Post integration for shipping
o Integration with eBay and Amazon for online-sellers
o UPS Warehousing integration for Logistics
o Integration with Authorize.NET for credit cards

4. OTHER TOOLS
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• Jasper Reports: Integrated Jasper Reports with OpenERP to provide
advanced reporting and BI Capabilities
• Talend: Migrated data to OpenERP using open source ETL Talend.
• Arena PLM : Integrated OpenERP with Arena PLM for Electronic
Change Management.

5. CASE STUDY – HIGH END
SPEAKER MANUFACTURER
• Based in Ontario, Canada
• Successfully replaced SAP B1 with OpenERP
• Challenge with SAP B1
o Serialized and Non Serialized Item Tracking
o Shop Floor processing with Bar Code Scanners Integrated with system
o Tracking of WIP Costing at various stages in the WO Processing
o Breakdown of the Standard Cost of the Finished Goods into different
parameters like Labor, Teardown, Amortization etc.
o Assigning Routing and Operations to the BoM
o Processing the MO through different Routings and Operations
o Support of Bar-Code scanning on Shop Floor Processing
o Licensing Cost per seat which limits the user base

6. CASE STUDY – HIGH END
SPEAKER MANUFACTURER
• Advantages with OpenERP
o Categorization of Serialized and Non Serialized Items in OE
o Defining the Stock Movement Accounts at Category level helps in
identifying the WIP movement with the Cost associated with it
o Serial Nos assigned based on Category of each Item
o Serial No Tracking while receiving, assigning to production floor,
receiving back from the production floor and also outgoing
movements
o Complete traceability available for the Item Movements and also for
Finished Goods
o Standard Cost bifurcation of the Product into separate heads defined
at category level
o Production Cost Analysis for Labor, Runtime Labor, Overheads,
Teardown, Amortization at each stage during the routing

7. CASE STUDY – HIGH END
SPEAKER MANUFACTURER
• Advantages with OpenERP
o End to End Integration with Scanners to process the WO on the shop
floor
o Implemented the Asset Management including Shop Floor assets
under CRA rules for depreciation
o Multi-Currency support for all the transactions and also exchange rate
postings to the related accounts
o Managing of Item level and Order Value Discounts while on Sales
Channels
o No licensing and user limitation given the open-source nature of
OpenERP
o Easy to Customize the workflows as per the requirements
o Successful migration of data from SAP B1 to OpenERP
o In-depth analytical view for entire Supply Chain

8. CASE STUDY – MANUFACTURER
OF SUB WOOFERS AND LIDAR
• Based in California, USA
• Successfully replaced aging Expandable with OpenERP
• Challenges with Expandable
o Not linked to the online selling channels
o Unsuitable to meet the needs of the company as it grows into multi-
geographies.
o Not possible to link with outsourced warehouse being managed by
UPS in China.
o Old ERP system with too much manual entries and little control checks,
lacking the features of a modern ERP system.
o Old system does not support advanced manufacturing and lacks insight
into WIP inventory and detailed costing.
o Licensing issues, per seat licenses limits the number of users causing
users to be locked out of the system.

9. • Advantages with OpenERP
o Successfully migrated all the data from Expandable into OpenERP
o Server hosted on Amazon enabling departments from different
Geographies to use the ERP.
o Tight linkage of third party logistics provided by UPS from within ERP .
o No more licensing and user limitation given the open-source nature of
OpenERP.
o End-to-end integration with online selling channels, shipping, logistics,
banking and other providers.
o Implemented OpenERP 6.1 with it modern web-based UI, which was
much better than the native client of Expandable.
o Elimination of manual entries and reduction of errors due to human
mistakes.
CASE STUDY – MANUFACTURER
OF SUB WOOFERS AND LIDAR

10. • Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Online selling of optical products across Europe
• Migrated for legacy ERP - Filemaker to OpenERP
• Challenges with Filemaker
o Old system which was not able to handle the workload of Amex as
their business expanded.
o A lot of customizations and programs needed to be created to meet
the business requirements.
o Needed a modern ERP system with strong MRP capabilities and
complete backend processes.
o Needed capability of handling multi-currency and multi-country
requirements with complex tax rules.
o Capable of using integrated accounting and not having to export data
into AccountsView application
CASE STUDY - AMEX OPTICS

11. • Advantages after OpenERP implementation
o Departments from multi-locations can use the ERP as it was deployed
using the hosted model.
o Capability of managing stock-rules and avoiding out-of-stock
situations.
o Implemented multi-currency support of OpenERP and configured tax
rules based on various European jurisdictions.
o Integrated with online selling channels of JShop with various stores.
o Implemented custom automated logic for processing of Orders based
on complex rules.
o Reduced the processing times of orders thus enabling the handling of
larger volume of orders.
o Plan to use advanced analytics in-built into OpenERP in the future.
CASE STUDY - AMEX OPTICS -
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12. THANKS
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