Industrial enterprises multi-species small batch ERP system costing

Information technology is vigorously promoting the revolution of industrial automation and management modernization. Iron and steel industry has always attached importance to the automation and control of the production process, in the management of information technology, ERP as a representative of the management information system in recent years in the iron and steel enterprises have also begun a large-scale application.

The iron and steel industry was originally characterized by large-scale mass production. In the past decade, the market competition environment faced by steel enterprises has changed dramatically, the customer's demand for steel varieties, specifications (such as plate width, thickness, coating and mechanical properties indicators, etc.) is becoming more and more diversified, and customer demand is characterized by multi-species, small batch. This puts forward higher requirements for the informatization of the steel industry.

The MES system is indispensable

Under the above premise, it is becoming more and more difficult for steel enterprises to forecast user demand. In order to reduce inventory and save costs, the most effective operation strategy is to change the traditional push system with forecasting as the main axis to a pull system with demand planning as the main axis. Enterprise production will reduce the predictive production, into the main production by order; production mode is also changed from the past mass production mode into multi-species, small batch production mode.

This production mode, the enterprise sales department should be very understanding of the situation of the production sector, grasp the real-time data of the production line, to avoid the signing of unreasonable contracts, to avoid the contract price is lower than the cost of production, the delivery period simply can not guarantee the problem; production scheduling staff to be able to grasp the historical situation of production and the current data in a timely manner, to facilitate the merger of small orders according to the actual production capacity to develop a Scientific and reasonable production scheduling plan, the production sector for scientific command and coordination; and production departments also need to grasp the current order situation, production planning instructions, can quickly and accurately according to the sales contract and scheduling plan to arrange for shift production.

Information technology is vigorously promoting the revolution of industrial automation and management modernization. Iron and steel industry has always attached importance to the automation and control of the production process, in the management of information technology, ERP as a representative of the management information system in recent years in the iron and steel enterprises have also begun a large-scale application. Especially in recent years, China's large-scale iron and steel enterprises and local backbone enterprises have strengthened the basic automation and enterprise informatization construction, have invested a lot of manpower, financial and material resources, the structure of the factory level, the company level and even the group level of ERP class management system. However, due to the weakness of computerized production management level, the formation of information flow bottleneck in production management and control is still largely dependent on experience, there is information is not timely, production and management disconnect, production command lag and other issues. In the process of automation and management of information technology between the digital divide, resulting in the inability to closely integrate the management and production, ERP and other management automation systems, the application of the effect of greatly reduced, and even led to the failure of the implementation of the ERP system. 20 century 90's the development of the manufacturing execution system (MES), it is the indispensable means of opening up this bottleneck.

MES system plays a role in the production process, the role of the bottom, the control and management of internal logistics, production process cost control and management of production management activities are completed in the MES layer. It receives ERP production plan, cost index, energy plan and other information, and combined with the actual production of these plans will be issued to the production process system; according to the actual production site, feedback production completion information and statistical data; the production of emergency events, such as equipment failure, emergency orders, etc. to deal with, to ensure that the normal production order.

MES to economic indicators as the goal, not only can deal with the original difficult to deal with the production and management of the dual nature of the information, but also can play a production process information and management information for conversion, processing and transmission of the role of the process-oriented production activities and business activities of the bridge and link. With the flattening of management, MES is becoming a bridge and link for enterprises to realize the effective integration of production activities and management activities, and to carry out optimized operation, optimized control and optimized management.

Steel enterprise information technology after decades of practice and theoretical development, its system structure has gradually got rid of the traditional mode of completely in accordance with the physical level of division and configuration of the system is moving towards a simpler and more reasonable overall information technology model (ERP/MES/PCS) development.

The effect of the implementation of the overall information technology

Currently, many of China's iron and steel enterprises are implementing or planning to implement the overall information technology solutions, the establishment of a more complete management and control model of the iron and steel enterprises;

Establishment of the embodiment of the financial-centered, cost-control as the core concept of the management model; the establishment of the whole process of production and management of the contract to organize the information integration model; the establishment of a sales contract and market forecasting based on a hybrid sales contract and market forecasting model; the establishment of the information integration model. Based on the sales contract and market forecast hybrid-driven production planning, scheduling management model; according to the contract to organize production, quality management, planning management, materials management and real-time dynamic tracking of the entire contract life cycle; shorten the cycle of finished products and production cycle, accelerate the recovery of payment, improve product quality and grade. In the direction of rapid response to the market and improve customer satisfaction, accelerate the logistics, information flow and capital flow, optimize the management of the entire production process, build an advanced management model and operation mechanism, to achieve the ideal goal of "sales and production as one, the integration of control and synchronization of the three streams" of the iron and steel enterprises.

Through the implementation of overall informatization, the enterprise integrates all the information from the first level system to the fourth level system, and can monitor the production changes in real time, reflecting the integration of the process of enterprise management ideas, and improve the management level of the enterprise; real-time interaction between all levels of information flow, logistics can be uniformly reflected in the system, which shortens the product production cycle, and makes the production and sales more closely linked to each other, and establishes a rapid market response mechanism, and the intermediate inventory is greatly reduced. Market response mechanism, intermediate inventory is greatly reduced, while reducing the management decision-making in many human factors interference.

Through the implementation of the overall information technology, many steel enterprises continued for more than 40 years of multi-level financial into a level of accounting. Sales, production, technical quality has also realized the first level of management, and comprehensively improve the enterprise's market responsiveness and user service level.

Through the implementation of the overall information technology, the information barriers and information fragmentation was broken, the phenomenon of information silos have been resolved, in a comprehensive, unified information platform to achieve the information **** enjoy. Real-time cost accounting in production strengthens the role of financial monitoring, and the integration of sales, procurement, project management and financial systems strengthens the enterprise's fund management.

One of our steel enterprises after the implementation of the overall information technology, currency recovery accelerated by 3 days, the monthly financial accounts from 8 days to 3 days, the monthly financial accounts shortened to 2 to 4 days. All the financial data to do the number out of a door, a number of multi-purpose, the authenticity of the accounting accounts have a substantial guarantee. The parameters required for the warranty are automatically collected and processed by the system, and the printing process does not require manual intervention. The chemical composition of steelmaking is automatically uploaded by the steelmaking laboratory, and the front and back processes can be ****enjoyed, eliminating the summons. The data of abnormal product quality information is highly *** enjoyable, and the computer automatically generates statistical reports, ending the history of frequent errors in manual filling in the past. The implementation of enterprise information technology makes customer resources and process regulations database, to ensure the operation of the enterprise security.

Through the implementation of overall information technology, the enterprise comprehensively strengthened the standardization of management and standardization. According to statistics, the implementation of the overall information technology of the steel enterprise production cycle has been reduced by an average of about 5 days, the on-time delivery rate increased by 10 percentage points, the intermediate inventory has been reduced by an average of 20% to 30%. Enterprise information technology has changed the past only focus on the results of the traditional management of the process, so that the financial accounts data transparency, so that the procurement, measurement, inspection, sales price policy and so on the solidification of operational procedures to ensure that the trajectory of business activities have traceability.