Dynamics,International,Impleme computer Dynamics GP International Implementation Notes

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If you are reading these lines, you are likely to be US,Canadian, British, Australian, New Zealand or South African company.  We will review such points as ERPlocalization for specific country, customizability in the sense of translatingsmall subset of GP interfaces into local language, upstream GL transactionsconsolidation and consolidated financial reporting: 1.       ERPand Accounting System Localization.  Ithas two aspects: interface translation to local language and compliance tolocal tax and government reporting.  Atthis time, 2009 - Dynamics GP is translated into Spanish for Latin America,Canadian French for Quebec - these languages are officially supported byMicrosoft Business Solutions.  Plus, insome countries, such as Poland - you may find translations supported by localDynamics GP partner.  This is aboutDynamics GP version 10.0.  Earlierversions were supported in Germany, France, Belgium, and some other ERPmarkets.  It is unlikely that Dynamics GPwill be translated into more languages in the future, as it seems thatMicrosoft is making more efforts to translate and localize Dynamics AX orformer Axapta and few years ago Dynamics NAV or Navision was expanding alsointernationally.  Compliance to Tax andGovernment reporting is in some cases more challenging than simple translationto foreign language, especially for large countries, as Brazil, Russia, India,China.  Smaller countries typically havemore generic compliance requirements and you can consider simple translation ofseveral Dynamics GP screens into local language and support it with someCrystal Report, where compliance could be achieved 2.       DynamicsGP translation to local language.  Firstof all you need to look at Dynamics GP architecture - Great Plains Dexterity,that was created in earlier 1990th, as the shell coded in C programminglanguage.  C was good abstraction fromComputer operating system (remember fight between Windows, Unix and Mac), butat the same time pure C coding had some limitations.  One of them was lack of Unicode support.  As you may know - Unicode characters coverall the languages in the World, while earlier ASCII character only coverEnglish plus some other languages, mostly Latin and Cyrillic based.  Dexterity supports ASCII, so if your targetlanguage has ASCII compliant alphabet - you can translate Dex screens andimplement Dynamics GP in your country, plus some add-ons exist for Arabic.  If you are thinking about China, or anotherhieroglyph based languages - Dynamics GP is very limited here, and all you maytry is NJ Star to accept and save Chinese, Japanese, Korean characters, but youcannot translate GP user interface.  So,in the case of hieroglyph you could only consider in our opinion Asianspecialty foods and restaurants supplying automation in USA, where some verylimited Chinese language support is desired 3.       GLConsolidation and Consolidated Financial Reporting.  Even if Dynamics GP is not localized for yourinternational place, you can always consider to implement local ERP leadingapplication, from where for controlling purposes you establish regular GLtransactions export and import via Dynamics GP Integration Manager (or eConnect)to the image of the this foreign branch company in your GP system.  If your branch is in start up phase, you canalways use Excel export files and consolidate it in Balance Sheet or Profit& Loss Statement in FRx - you know that FRx has an option to link to Exceldirectly.  If you do GL transactionsconsolidation, then your FRx financial reporting in based on the company in GP 4.       SAPBusiness One.  In the case, when otherMicrosoft ERPs are too expensive for international branch (Axapta or Navision)and you would like to have something from brand names, we recommend you toconsider Small and Midsize business ERP, MRP and CRM from SAP.  This software was created by Israel based firmwith the hope to expand internationally and be localized in most of thecountries of the Globe.  SB1 can solveyour problem in such challenging countries (from their demanding Tax andFinancial Reporting regulation stand point) as Brazil, Russia or India.  In SBO you can switch language for examplefrom Brazilian Portuguese to English and if you are US based corporatecontroller this fact allows you to exercise control and review what is going onin Brazil.  SB1 has simple data export,virtually you can export to Excel or CSV every report, plus you can export datafrom MS SQL Server 2005 company database and then import it into Dynamics GPvia Integration Manager integration 5.       Someadditional considerations.  From ourinternational ERP implementation experience, and in various times we wereconsulting Great Plains in Russia, Brazil, Czech Republic, Poland -  in international environment you may meetlocal accounting differences and even resistance from locally educated chiefaccountant or controller.  This might besomewhat like surprise for you, but you should be aware that there are severalleading models in accounting regulation and one of them is coming from France,where government has required Chart of Accounts.  Russian Federation is good example where thisstrictly forced CoA is adopted and you have to follow to imitate you GLtransactions to follow required standards. If you are in Moscow, this way is realized in such local accounting packagesas C Accounting.  Please, decideinternally what is your possible trade off - either you need American GAAPcompliance or you would rather avoid Russian Tax Agency audit problems.  SAP Business One is available in Russia. Howto get help.  Please feel free to callus: 1-866-528-0577, [email protected]. Our Dynamics GP and SAP Business One consultants speak English, Spanish,Portuguese, Chinese, Filipino, Arabic, Russian. We specialize in Dynamics GP, SAP Business One, Microsoft CRM implementationsinternationally, plus we are happy to help you with eCommerce integrations toGP or SB1.  In Brazil we havesubdivision, implementing Dynamics