On any given day, 2% OF THE GLOBAL GDP is sitting in a UPS truck somewhere. To put that in perspective, that is $1.2 Trillion Dollars of stuff. And some of it is probably yours.

Whether B2B or B2C, most businesses these days are taking orders from multiple channels: Reps on the phone, boots on the street, cash on the barrel, and bits on the Internet. But whether you are clicks-and-mortar or bricks-and-mortar, if you can’t get your stuff to the right customer at the right time, you can’t get paid.

Everyone knows that trade is Global. Open source software in general, and Openbravo in particular, are exemplars. Openbravo is built upon an open source ERP started by a German and embraced by a global community. The Spanish founders of Openbravo saw a chance to build a better product and took it. Their CEO is Italian, but he now lives in Silicon Valley.

Despite its international pedigree, Openbravo is squarely aimed at the US market. It comprises a complete order to cash ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution. It provides everything from POS (point of sales) at one end of the chain, to shipping and logistics at the other. Finance and accounting, of course, sit in the middle. After all, we’re all in business to make money. Of vital importance, then, Openbravo features a full-featured accounting module that is fully GAAP-compliant (generally accepted accounting principals). Goodbye Quickbooks and Peachtree. Step aside Oracle and SAP.

CorraTech joined Openbravo as its very first partner in the US. This is no surprise, given that CorraTech is bilingual: we speak both JAVA and PHP fluently. We have even developed core code for Openbravo. In other words, we know this product very well. And, like other Open Solutions, Openbravo is designed from the ground up to work with other systems. We can tie it into your eCommerce site and CRM to make a complete front to back-office solution.

Keep track of your piece of the global GDP