Microsoft Great Plains Customization: Project Organization international
business example
By Andrew Karasev
1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918
Alba Spectrum Technologies
Microsoft Business
Solutions Great Plains fits to majority of horizontal niches and clientele in
the USA, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, U.K., Brazil, South Africa, Australia,
New Zealand and Middle East. If you are
project organization: Real Estate, Law Firm, Placement Agency with permanent
clients, Construction or Freight Forwarding company you probably use or plan
to deploy Project management or Project accounting extension for Microsoft Great
Plains. If you have your business in one country this work relatively simple,
however we see clients, involved into international business, when your
headquarters is located in the US for example and offices and locations are in
Mexico. Lets look at your options:
- Localized version of
Great Plains. Former Great Plains Software, who created Great Plains
Dynamics/eEnterprise/Dynamics C/S+ back in 1990th had serious
international expansion plans and realized the majority of them. Currently
you can purchase Spanish, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese and other
local versions of Great Plains. When we are talking about localization we
mean not only translated into local language, but also tuned to local taxation
regulations. You can have users working with the same company in Great Plains
some of them will use English and others Spanish version.
- Project Automation
options. When you are doing business internationally you are dealing with
multi currency. In the case of Great Plains you can have unlimited number of
currencies and for the specific company you select so-called functional
currency. If you have branch in Mexico you can setup US Dollar as
functional currency and have invoices issued in Peso. Then you will have
gains or losses on currency revaluation posted to your General Ledger.
However you should know that multicurrency works with limited number of
Project Management extensions. If you use third party extension in the US
you should check with its vendor if multicurrency is supported. Chances are
that it isnt and in this case you should consider using standard version of
Microsoft Great Plains Project Accounting.
- Great Plains hosting.
Most of our clients are hosting the system in their headquarters. However you
could get your software price discounts if you host in the main facility
abroad. Lets say you have production facility in Brazil and distribution
offices in US. If you place your system in Brazil and have remote connection
for US-based users you can purchase the software by Brazilian price list.
Good luck with implementation and customization and if you have issues or
concerns we are here to help! If you want us to do the job - give us a call
1-866-528-0577! help@albaspectrum.com
Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba
Spectrum Technologies USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization
company, serving clients in Chicago, California, Texas, Florida, New York,
Georgia, Arizona, Minnesota, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple
states and internationally (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ),
he is CMA, Great Plains Certified Master, Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal
Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. You can contact Andrew:
andrewk@albaspectrum.com