If you are USA or Canada based multinational corporate and you deploy Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerly known as Great Plains Dynamics or eEnterprise, you should find optimal ERP application for your international subsidiaries and branches. As you already paid for Dynamics GP licenses, first natural idea is probably to implement GP for overseas branches and exercise full control in Financial Reporting, Internal Audit, etc. This natural idea might be not as good as it initially looks like
Couple of observations: foreign countries typically have their own restrictions and legislations on tax reporting, corporate annual and quarterly filing, some countries require continuous invoice numbering. Second observation: some foreign countries, such as China, Korea, Japan have Unicode based language characters or in other words hieroglyphs and Dynamics GP at this time and likely in the future doesn't support Unicode with some exemptions (take a look at NJ Star add-ons). In Accounting application terms local language support and compliance to local legislation is known as ERP Localization. In our opinion, if your foreign subsidiary is located in the country where Dynamics GP is not localized, the best approach is to select localized ERP, which is simple in implementation and consolidation to Corporate ERP Great Plains. Let's review the options for various countries and regions:
1. Countries, where Dynamics GP is available completely or partially localized. These are English speaking countries, Spanish speaking Latin America (where localization depth varies from one country to another), French Canadian version for Quebec, plus for Oceania and South East Asia (Philippines, Singapore and other countries where English is the language of business communication). Now, in some countries you have Dynamics GP localizations, supported by local Dynamics GP ISV partners, good example is Poland
2. SAP Business One. This application is for small or mid-size business, however in our opinion it is scalable for serious operations, it doesn't have batch posting, meaning that individual invoice is posted all the way through GL, but this is probably not a big concern for you. It is localized in longer list of countries, including Brazil, China, India, Russia. SB1 has very intuitive interface and covers Financials, Warehouse Management, Sales and Purchasing, Production (discrete manufacturing style), MRP, Service Management with Warranty Contracts, CRM with Opportunity Management, Basic HR (no Payroll in core functionality). SBO allows you to switch user interface from local language (such as Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, etc.) to English and then you are in control as internal auditor. If you deploy SB1 on Microsoft SQL Server DB platform, you can easily export its GL transactions to text file and integrate them into image of your international branch into Dynamics GP via Integration Manager. If your overseas location is very tiny, you could Export SB1 report into Excel and then include it into FRx Report from Dynamics GP side
3. Supporting Dynamics GP and SB1 internationally. We make the best efforts to support you remotely via web sessions, plus we are travelling to your location for User training and critical implementation phases, where local presence is required. We speak English, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian
4. How to get help? Please call us: 1-866-528-0577, outside of USA and Canada: 1-630-961-5918, email help@albaspectrum.com. We specialize in Dynamics GP customizations, integrations, reporting, the same should be valid for SAP Business One, Microsoft CRM, barcoding, ecommerce. In international environment we have numerous successful Microsoft RMS integration to Great Plains
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