| If your organization participates in International business | | | | were coded many years ago) – you should be |
| and you are in charge for IT strategy, including | | | | more creating in ERP selection process for your |
| international accounting, MRP, ERP, Supply Chain | | | | overseas branch, where local language requires |
| Management, EDI, Shipping and Receiving, Light | | | | Unicode |
| manufacturing, we are presenting you this small | | | | 3. Microsoft Dynamics GP as your Corporate ERP in |
| publication, where we describe the option to build | | | | USA. Formerly this application was known as Great |
| corporate ERP on Microsoft Dynamics GP platform in | | | | Plains Dynamics or eEnterprise. It was coded in Great |
| US, Canadian, UK, Australian, South African | | | | Plains Dexterity and Dexterity in turn is the shell |
| headquarters and SAP Business One in international | | | | programmed in C programming language in earlier |
| subsidiary | | | | 1990th, where Unicode was not yet introduced. Great |
| 1. International ERP challenge. There is special term to | | | | Plains is localized for most of English speaking |
| check on readiness of ERP and Accounting application | | | | countries, South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, |
| to local country requirements: Localization. ERP | | | | Thailand, India, Pakistan), Spanish speaking Latin |
| localization includes two parts: local language support | | | | America, plus French Canadian version is supported. |
| and compliance with local accounting, ERP, Sales/VAT | | | | You can also translate Dynamics GP screens to ASCII |
| GST taxation legislation | | | | compliant alphabets – this includes most of the |
| 2. Local Language support. This is often more complex | | | | European Latin and Cyrillic based: Polish, Czech, |
| than you expected. If you look at ASCII table, where | | | | Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian, Bulgarian, |
| each character is in essence is covered by one byte, | | | | Romanian, Serbian, etc. |
| or 8 bits – please know that not all World languages | | | | 4. SAP Business One. This small business ERP and |
| are standardized in ASCII. There is such term as | | | | MRP is Unicode compliant, and you can easily export |
| Unicode, where each character of all World alphabets | | | | or integrate SB1 transactions to your Dynamics GP GL |
| (including Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic, | | | | via GP Integration Manager. SAP BO is very efficient |
| Japanese, Armenian, Georgian) is coded in two bytes. | | | | in international business ERP scenarios and it has |
| If ERP doesn’t support Unicode (which is often the | | | | relatively low software licenses cost and short |
| case, as majority of ERP applications are matured and | | | | implementation cycle. |