Great Plains Implementation in International Environment Overview for it
Microsoft Dynamics GP is compliant to such regulations in US as 1099, State Sales taxes, US Payroll taxes and Social Security and Medicare contributions, printing W-2 forms – just to give you an idea why ERP should be localized for specific country, where you are planning to implement it. Great Plains Dynamics GP is ready for the following countries: USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean and Latin America (except Brazil), Australia and New Zealand, Oceania, South Africa, UK, and Asian countries where English language is predominant in business: Philippines, India, Pakistan, Middle East, Singapore. If you have corporate headquarters in one of these countries, where Great Plains is implemented as Corporate ERP, then, if you are looking for the ERP/MRP for your international subsidiary, you should be aware about GP implementation pluses and minuses:
1. Great Plains and foreign language support. If your local subsidiary language requires Unicode (or two bites per character) – GP is not your ERP of choice, and the reason is simple – Great Plains Dexterity doesn’t support Unicode. You can try hard and get help from Chinese, Korean, Japanese language limited support through such providers as NJ Star. If your foreign subsidiary is located in the country of ASCII extension table (second part of the byte): Russia, Polish, Czech, Lithuanian, Latvian, Portuguese, French, to give you examples – then Dexterity based GP will do the job. In this case, you should consider to translate few Dexterity strings to make your local GP installation understandable for local users
2. Great Plains and corporate tax filing. Here, in our opinion, if Great Plains Dynamics is not localized for your country – it is better to avoid doing tax forms and plus government forms of Balance Sheet, P&L and Cash Flow statements – in your foreign country regulations might be too restrictive to make Great Plains ERP not even feasible
3. SAP Business One. This small and mid-size business ERP is localized for the majority of countries and should be certified and compliant to local regulations and tax reporting. It is very simple to do GL level transaction export from SB1 and then scheduling importing them into Dynamics GP Corporate ERP. We experienced with SB1 and GP as a MRP tandem and in all cases it worked really successful
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