How to eliminate the negative influence of time zone?

No one can deny the negative influence of time zone on the business especailly for the international companies and virtual companies whose components or service providers are spreaded all over the world. Generally speaking, the managers' awareness of time zone's affect, properate planning under good coordination between different business units are very important to serve this purpose. And in this case, ERP systems would be a good engine to create carefully planed business activies.

In a further view, the location where a new business unit or branch will be built on should be carefully selected. One good choice is to choose a country located in the same or similar time zone with the main business unit. For example, if the headquarter is located in the Netherlands, the new business unit could be selected to be built in south africa if no other constrants.