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• Each region has very different business requirements and only individual localized models can adequately reflect these requirements

• Strong operations in each region to administer to localized models

How to Get Started

If you don’t know where to start after reading this document, consider the resources your organization has for answering the regionality question of global vs. local models. How much central control vs. decentralized control does your organization want to support? How well would a global model work? Does the Japan organization require custom attributes? Does the South America region require customizations? Does China want to model entities differently?

Semarchy’s suggestion is to go with the default of reusing the same model across all regions. Meaning stick with a single global model. The IT time savings is significant to only have to manage and maintain one global model. But stick with a single global model if a localized model is appropriate for certain regions. Be flexible.