What is ERP management

Definition of ERP system: It refers to the management platform established on the basis of information technology, with systematic management ideas, providing decision-making operation means for enterprise decision-making layer and staff. It is a new generation of integrated management information system developed from MRP (Material Requirements Planning), which extends the functions of MRP, and its core idea is supply chain management.

Three types of ERP systems:

Statistical ERP: mainly all types of enterprise data, through a small number of operators, all types of data are summarized, and ultimately achieved to see what type of data are statistical data purposes.

Integrated ERP: the enterprise has all the associated personnel and outreach units and individuals, including customers, through the software to link them up, so that the data to achieve interaction. At the same time to many sections of the data, using the most convenient way for management to view the integration.

Intelligent ERP: through the standardization of the process of sorting out, and ultimately achieve: only one line of operation to enter data, approval can be automatically generated so the ledger and income statement, balance sheet, etc., and all kinds of statistical analysis forms, are their own process to complete the statistics. Intelligent to allow enterprises to use the least amount of time, to obtain the most information benefits as the goal.

Basic content of the ERP system:

Processes, mainly oriented to deal with specific matters, the function is not easy to expand, business process curing, high maintenance costs, and the integration of new environments is difficult, the lack of flexibility, the enterprise can not be with the changes in the business environment and the convenience of rapid change in the business process, while changes in the business environment prompted by the enterprise must be quickly adjusted to the business to respond.

Service frameworks, generally build an integration platform, and then develop a variety of adapters and connectors to connect existing subsystems. The adapters are used for effective information collection, information forwarding between the existing integration platform and the original platform. Integration can not be convenient, flexible, low-cost to realize the integration of heterogeneous subsystems, difficult to quickly adapt to the changing needs of the enterprise's modern business, but also easily subject to the limitations of the traditional distributed object middleware technology, such as COBA, DCOM, RMI interoperability, the tight coupling between the client and the server.

Business systems, the lack of agility, business systems through consulting, after the development of the realization of the software is often cured. ERP use of the initial period, the various systems may be able to function well; with the development and change of business, the enterprise's various internal and external environments change, the processing of business changes, but the business system is very difficult to change, or adjusted to the huge cost.

Later maintenance, part of the ERP system in the implementation of the completion of a maintenance and expansion of the team will train the system for later improvement and optimization, or according to the development of the business, the business software adjustment. Most ERP systems use an integrated platform to implement, the requirements of the later expansion team is relatively high, the developers can often only improve some peripheral functions, can not carry out fundamental business optimization. The use and extension of integrated platforms is generally more complex and demanding.

Application expansion, the degree of productization is not high, secondary development aggravates the risk.ERP system is for the development of enterprise strategy and objectives of the service, and to enable ERP to achieve this functional objective, it is necessary to expand the system functionality with the development of the enterprise, the transformation of the business and constantly expanding and updating improvements. Due to the current domestic part of the ERP product productization is not high, the products are required in the near future to varying degrees for the user to do secondary development. This undoubtedly to the developers and users of both sides at the same time brought the risk.