Bista Solutions Inc, established in 2007, is a top OpenERP partner in North America, specializing in custom implementations and migrations to open-source ERP systems. The document highlights several case studies, illustrating successful replacements of legacy ERP systems with OpenERP for companies in various industries, showcasing advantages like improved inventory tracking, multi-currency support, and reduced licensing limitations. Bista has developed numerous integrations and tools tailored for the North American market, enhancing operational efficiency for its clients.

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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