What is ERP? What does ERP mean?

"What is ERP?" "What does ERP mean?" Are two questions that people often ask, "What is ERP?" "What does ERP mean?" The essence of the two questions is the same. ERP is generally called "enterprise resource planning", but it is not easy to describe ERP clearly in a short sentence. The word ERP is defined in Baidu Encyclopedia as follows: "ERP is the abbreviation of 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). " Baidu Encyclopedia's explanation is somewhat academic, which is more suitable for people engaged in academic research, but it is not easy to be accepted by private enterprise bosses. In UFIDA CIO Club, teacher Ye Genping, an expert from UFIDA School of Management Software, initiated "What is ERP?" Discuss, say clearly "What is ERP?" It caused a heated discussion in UFIDA CIO Club, and many people in the industry expressed their views. Some highlights are as follows: Jincheng sent 1, and managed the places you didn't manage. (planning and control) 2. Straighten out the chaos of your management. (Process Optimization) 3. Let your management be extensive and fine. (human, financial, material, sales, production and supply) Zhao Xuhui 1, strengthening the correct process; 2, the process of error correction; 3. Delete useless processes. Fan 1, ERP is a management idea, a set of enterprise management system standards, and a supply chain-oriented management idea further developed on the basis of MRPII; 2.ERP is a software product that comprehensively applies a series of information industry achievements and takes ERP thought as its soul; 3.ERP is a management system, an enterprise resource management system that integrates enterprise management concepts, business processes, basic data, human and material resources, computer software and hardware. Arjun 1, based on consumer orders, plans the quantity, time and coordination of all resources in the whole chain and controls the rhythm, neither too fast nor too slow, neither too much nor too little; 2. In order to achieve this state, it is necessary to set up monitoring points and fine-tune every resource in the whole chain at any time according to market changes to realize rapid adaptation to changes; 3. According to the continuous monitoring, set the monitoring upper and lower limits, realize automatic alarm or automatic processing, and bring real management automation. If Wang Jiajia is talking to the boss, let's put it this way: If you want to be lazy but want to control the details of the enterprise, ERP is here to help you do the job. On the question of "what is ERP", Mr. Ye himself concluded: "ERP is a tool that can improve the efficiency of collecting and using business data; ERP can help enterprises find problems in the management process and provide ideas to solve them. As long as the management of the enterprise is in place, ERP can bring considerable economic benefits to the enterprise. " Chen Qishen, a domestic expert in ERP field, also expressed his views in UFIDA CIO Club. He summarized ERP as "a solution to standardize, integrate, control and optimize business processes inside and outside the enterprise with the help of information technology." In fact, ERP system has jumped out of the traditional enterprise boundary and optimized enterprise resources from the scope of supply chain. ERP system, which combines information technology and advanced management ideas, has become the operation mode of modern enterprises, which embodies the requirements of the times for enterprises to rationally allocate resources and create social wealth to the maximum, and has become the cornerstone for enterprises to survive and develop in the information age. It plays an important role in improving business processes and enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises. Note: Ye Genping is an ERP industry consultant, general manager of the ERP industry and consulting headquarters of UFIDA Software Co., Ltd., and an important member of the expert committee of UFIDA Management Software College. 1990 graduated from the Graduate School of Northeastern University with a master's degree in engineering, a senior engineer, and a master's corporate tutor in the School of Software, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He has served as project manager, executive director, industry director, general manager and vice president of many professional ERP companies in China. Organized and implemented ERP projects of dozens of domestic large and medium-sized listed enterprises, and provided 100 domestic large and medium-sized enterprises with overall management information solutions with ERP/DRP and other software systems as the core content. He has accumulated rich experience in the information construction of discrete manufacturing industry. He has in-depth research and rich operational experience in many technical fields of manufacturing informatization construction (IT planning, business process optimization/reorganization, ERP project implementation, basic network design and implementation, IT services, etc.). ).