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Microsoft Dynamics GP, or how it is and was known Great Plains Dynamics is available for certain number of foreign countries, especially where English language is in use: UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Oceania, South East Asia, South Africa. 

Also in Canada it is supported for Quebec in French and in Central and South America plus Caribbean it is supported in Spanish.  From time to time we see the situation, when multinational corporation in USA, having GP as corporate ERP and MRP is in need to deploy limited version of Great Plains for its international subsidiaries.  In this small publication we would like to give you practical highlights:

1.       ERP localization in foreign country dilemma.  If your subsidiary of branch has intensive operations, where such issues as paying Sales or VAT taxes, government reporting filing, local audit is an issue, then you should be aware that GP, if it is not localized for the country will not cover your needs.  We found it practical to recommend localized ERP for midsize business.  For example, let’s take Brazil, where Great Plains is not localized and such Microsoft ERP packages as Navision and Axapta might be too heavy for being implemented.  We recommend SAP Business One Brazilian implementation with integration to Great Plains in US headquarters.  The importance of localization seems to be higher for larger country, such as Brazil, India to give you example, for smaller countries GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) may take a rule over local peculiarities

2.       Great Plains in the country where language is not based on Unicode.  These countries are Brazil, most of Europe, Africa where alphabets are generally based on Latin.  If this is your case Great Plains will do the job, if there is no concern about paragraph above.  However there are few technical challenges.  First, your local language might use collations (accents, or other Latin characters modifications).  You can’t just add new company database for Lithuania for example and assume that it will work.  You need special tricks, usually attributed to the fact that Great Plains Dexterity (or GP shell and customization engine) is written in C programming language, where collation support was limited in the time of Dex invention back to early 1990th.

3.       If your language is based on Unicode.  Then you have to deploy characters translation utilities, available from Microsoft or few other software development firms.  Here we are talking about Chinese, Korean, Thai , Arabic and similar alphabets.

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