Internationalisation

Leading retail trade enterprises have already decided for the utilization of the GK/Retail Suite in the realization of international projects in order to unify their IT landscape. GK/Retail is optimally capable to map the manifold requirements of an international branch store organization. This is clearly demonstrated by the fact that there are already more than 50,000 productive installations in more than 20 countries.

With GK/Retail, the integration of new countries is a standard process. A new country version is not treated as an exception, but is immediately included into the standard. Basis for that are powerful reusable frameworks for the areas of translation, fiscalization and EFT. These standardized frameworks allow the integration of new countries without having to change the GK/Retail applications. The comprehensive internationalisation know-how of the mother company GK SOFTWARE AG offers you a quick time to market (TTM).

At that, the bandwidth of the requirements and business processes supported by GK/Retail is not limited. Using GK/Retail, the specificities required per country such as various languages, country-specific fiscalization regulations, local EFT requirements, regionally controllable action layout or specific cash rounding rules (unless already included in the standard) can be realized in short time.

For internationally acting enterprises, a particular advantage consists in the fact that the parameterization and the automatic software distribution for any number of branch stores in an unlimited number of countries can be performed from within a global head office of the enterprise. This provides unprecedented possibilities on the administration of widely ramified, complex branch store landscapes and considerably contributes to the simplification of the complexity and to the reduction of the costs.

The GK/Retail Suite is the perfect solution for internationally acting retailers:

• GK/Retail is consistently based on open standards and can be seamlessly integrated even into complex IT landscapes.
• GK/Retail is used in many fiscal countries and can be quickly adapted to further countries by means of its own fiscalization framework.
• GK/Retail is multilingual and can map any character sets in the standard.

• The solution is successfully used at leading retail trade enterprises in more than twenty European countries.