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Great Plains International Implementation: Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles - Alba Spectrum
Alba Spectrum
Chicago is US nationwide railroad and distribution hub, LA is our sea port, where we are receiving manufactured products from China and Asia, San Diego is our Venture capital field
If your corporation is growing and now you are planning to expand internationally, let's say outsource production or manufacturing to China, Philippines, India or South East Asia, and at the same time in USA you are deploying Microsoft Dynamics GP as your corporate ERP and MRP, you should come through complex international ERP selection process. In this small publication we would like to give you some recommendations, based on our ERP international consulting practice
1. ERP localization. This term means that your ERP inconsideration is translated to foreign language, plus that its taxation and reporting functions comply to foreign country regulation and tax code. Compliance may be more broad in its coverage, for example, French speaking countries might require government approved chart of accounts (where emphasis is often on complex and traditional manufacturing accounting: work in process, raw materials, finished goods, etc). Localization is especially important in large countries with very established local legislation, which is enforced (Brazil, India, Russia, France, Pakistan, China), in comparison to smaller countries, where American or International GAAP could be good direction to follow
2. Local Language. If your manufacturing outsourcing country has one of European languages: Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and the rest of Latin South America), English (India, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), Russian and Cyrillic (Russian Federation, Ukraine, Serbia, Bulgaria) - then Dynamics GP and its architecture Great Plains Dexterity could fit, as Dex supports ASCII table with European language characters. However, and this is important - if you are looking to implement international ERP in hieroglyph based alphabet, such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese, please try different route and look for ERP, which supports Unicode based characters and languages
3. SAP Business One or Microsoft Dynamics GP Axapta. Assuming that you have Great Plains implemented in USA, Canada, UK, South Africa or New Zealand, you likely will need smaller ERP application overseas, so Dynamics AX is probably too large and expensive for you. Just for this practical reason (however we might be wrong for large braches with sophisticated operations, in Brazil or China for example, where AX could be perfect fit), we recommend you SAP B1. It is localized in most of the Asian ERP markets, plus SAP typically goes all the way to certify its ERP packages with local government authorities. SAP BO is very simple in data export and integration, typically you export it in Excel format
Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum LLC. http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577. Web portal: http://www.pegasplanet.com We are Microsoft Dynamics GP technology partner, ERP and software integrator, who serves you USA, Canada, Mexico and Latin America nationwide. Local service is available in Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston. We have customer in the following business metros: Phoenix, New York, Boston, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Rhino, San Jose, Miami, Atlanta, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Detroit, Montreal, Las Vegas, Oceania, Colombia, Caribbean, Poland, UK, New Zealand, Australia
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3/9/2009
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