The essence of enterprise informatization is to digitize business processes such as production process, material movement, transaction processing, cash flow and customer interaction. And generate new information resources through various information systems and networks, so as to provide people at all levels with insight and observation of all information in various dynamic businesses, so as to make decisions conducive to the optimization of the combination of production factors, rationally allocate enterprise resources, and make enterprises adapt to the ever-changing competitive environment of market economy and obtain the greatest economic benefits.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Introduction to erp
ERP is the abbreviation of enterprise resource planning. In 1990s, according to the development of computer information and IT technology and the demand of enterprises for supply chain management, an American IT company predicted the development trend and upcoming changes of enterprise management information system in the future information age, and put forward this concept.
enterprise resource planning
ERP is an enterprise management software that integrates material resource management (logistics), human resource management (people flow), financial resource management (capital flow) and information resource management (information flow). A concept developed by Gartner Group describes the next generation manufacturing business system and manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) software. It will include a client/service architecture, using a graphical user interface, and through the use of open systems. In addition to the existing standard functions, it also includes other functions, such as quality, process operation management and adjustment report. In particular, the basic technology adopted by ERP will make users independent in both software and hardware, making it easier to upgrade. The key of ERP is that all users can tailor their own applications, so it is naturally easy to use.
However, ERP itself is not management and cannot replace management. ERP itself cannot solve the management problems of enterprises. Enterprise management problems can only be solved by managers themselves. ERP can be a tool for managers to solve enterprise management problems. Because many enterprises mistakenly regard ERP as management itself, they failed to seriously analyze the management problems of enterprises and find solutions before ERP implementation, and relied too much on ERP to solve the problems.
Finally, not only the old problems can not be effectively solved, but also many new problems have arisen, which eventually lead to the failure of ERP implementation. Enterprises have also been hurt. To correctly understand what ERP is and what is not, we will carefully analyze the problems existing in enterprise management before implementing ERP, understand the role of ERP in solving these problems, comprehensively and carefully plan and implement the procedures for using ERP to solve these problems, and provide a basis for ERP to give full play to its efficiency.