Consolidation of Localizations in NAV 2009 SP1

psekar

Hi

We are planning to consolidate the following countries localization to W1 Database:

1. US
2. Germany
3. Canada
4. French and
5. Spain

Can you please share your experience, if you have done earlier and your suggestions too?

Regards
Sekar

ara3n

I've implemented a couple projects.

1st Project involved. US, CA, Germany, France, UK.
We used NA database and merged only Germany IntraStat objects.
2nd. Project involved US, Germany, UK.
We used NA database and merged only Germany IntraStat objects and Germany Caption.
3rd. Project involved US and Spain.
Merged Spanish objects in US and Spanish Caption.


Germany has the Intrastaat as the only legal requirement. There were no French legal requirement that W1 didn't handle when we were implementing in 3.7.

Based on my experience. I suggest to keep Spanish a separate database. There are many modifications such as changing GL No to Text. This is because the Gov mandates a specific chart of accounts.
Also many posting routines have a lot of changes and you end up to a point where you have to write the code if "Spain Company" do this else do this.


Now if NAV could have company specific objects, it would be nice.

kriki

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FDickschat

I am working in a project where we integrated DE, BE, UK, FR, ES, NL based on DE. Italy will be next.

France and Spain have specific CoAs you need to use. Both have very large payment modules where I think the french is more flexible then the spanish.

BE, NL, UK, France are easy, you just need very little customization (apart from the payment modules). But Spain is really different! In the end we integrated all into one DB but you need to code it like

case CompanyCountryIs
  Spain:
  France:
  Else
end;

And there is lots of code to do! Unfortunately Intrastat is very different in all these countries. We used DE as the base as the DE version has the most functionality built in and integrated all the differences

We always involved a local NSC to explain the deifferences of the local version to a W1 version.