Modern enterprises often seek the advantages of going internationally and opening facilities in such regions as Brazil, China or Russia. The reasons might be various including cheaper labor cost but often also conquering foreign market and even oil drilling and mining and other activities related to mineral resources. However crossing USA border and opening production plant overseas often leads you to decision making about ERP application for your international subsidiary. Let's assume that you are moving to Brazil and you are using Dynamics GP here in the United States in the Headquarters. GP is not localized in Brazil and the idea to deploy it there anyway might be too unrealistic. Think about tax compliance and other regulations in Brazil. GAAP is formally followed there but there numerous requirements which you have to be in compliance with. You may decide to implement Microsiga or locally programmed accounting package. However such step will cause problems with financial, managerial control and probably internal audit. Popular packages such as Dynamics AX or Oracle Financials might be too expensive to be implemented in relatively small overseas office. Let's take a look at overall picture and think about Business One:
1. Localized ERP solution concept. Leading ERP providers such as SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics are offering packages localized for majority of world regions. In order to offer solution which supports hieroglyphs it should in turn support Unicode where each character is encoded in two bytes. Localized ERP concept has two aspects where the first one is user interface in local language and the second one is business regulation compliance. Here the compliance is probably more critical as it is difficult to achieve in large countries such as China, Russia or Brazil
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