Enterprise resource planning (ERP) phase (1990-2000 BC)
By the late 90's, the business community faced in information technology advances and globalization, competitive pressures, city Market demand shifted to meet the individual needs of diverse clients, creating a large number of high value-added customization, chemical and biological Production methods, business management focus for the organization operating in the large-scale, the trend of internationalization and diversification under, fast Reflect the market demand for a business focus. In addition, as network development, international operations are the current situation of the trend, so effective global logistics management is another major focus of operations. Limitations of the old information system more In a factory or a company's internal integration, insufficient to meet the huge corporate business processes, so a higher Level of enterprise integration of information systems - enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are thus born. In addition to ERP systems MRP II has the characteristics of cross-functional integration, the greater emphasis on areas through provision of inter-and cross-currency other real-time, Integration of information to improve enterprise ability to respond to environmental change. The original ERP system can be said to MRP II system, an upgraded version, but because of shorter product life cycles, diverse customer requirements and trends in real time the master has become the primary focus of the operation. For this reason, scholars began to seek to shorten product production throughout the supply System of the Indian from the customer needs, manufacturing, and distribution to the market as well as the overall lead time of the solution, then ERP The progressive development of shape. Current ERP system has the background operating system (back office) such as manufacturing, accounting, mining Purchased modules, integrated into the foreground operating system (Front Office), such as sales, customer service, SCM, CRM's Modules, and work towards a high-level executives for decision support and e-commerce B2B, B2C applications, in close connection with All the basic processes within the enterprise, the ERP system into an enterprise resource optimization of the point of view, integration of enterprise Business management resources in order to achieve overall operational efficiency of optimizing information systems. ERP system technology, combined with the Master-slave architecture, relational database, object-oriented technology and graphical user interface (GUI), fourth-generation language (4GL), network communications and other technologies is the ability to integrate information flow, business process and computer software and hardware in one body Enterprise information systems.
Extended enterprise resource planning system (EERP)
Future trends Into the 21st century, the era of global division of labor, enterprise resource integration has been insufficient to achieve the needs of global competition Demand, enterprises must strengthen their ERP systems, and integrated supply chain management concept; business information applications are Gradually evolved from the ERP with supply chain management (Supply Chain Management, SCM), e-commerce (e-Commerce), Customer Relationship Management (Customer Relationship Management, CRM) and other modules EERP (Extended ERP), to form a consolidation trend. SCM, CRM sectors upon completion of business Internal resource planning, and with the production model has been oriented towards the international, after the above and the following tour companies travel companies, enterprises Industry and the enterprises of the growing importance of supply chain management and the associated ERP vendors began to enter the field as an integrated Action. It is foreseeable that the future of ERP, will be inter-enterprise exchanges (Business to Business, B to B) The main body for business, ERP system, and then further developed to e-Commerce will be increasingly important.
Benefits of enterprise resource planning system
Import enterprise resource planning system, of course, the goal is to integrate all business processes throughout the company to the exchange of information, but if the companies do not use the ERP system, it is likely every month, or a business process operation has its own unique system, these systems are unable to communicate directly with each other, forming a lot of information islands, Or between systems must rely on complex and expensive communication interface to link to. But while importing Enterprise Resource Planning system can help companies address that is confusing and complex system, but the ERP system is very expensive and involves extensive, without a strong motivation, business is not necessarily the non-use of ERP system to replace the old system.
Achieve the benefits of ERP systems are:
1. So that the rationalization of business processes will be routine process automation, reduce human resources investment
2. From the ERP system is responsible for the daily operation of data processing to improve accuracy and timeliness of information
3. Quick response to unusual problems, strengthen internal controls
4. The introduction of best practices, learn advanced management techniques
5. Management among various local business organizations, so that smooth flow of information to convey
6. To improve the workflow so that each forms and processes a letter
7. To reduce the cost of internal communications Enterprises in assessing whether or not to adopt enterprise resource planning system (ERP), the cost factors will be important to test the amount of the current use of the overall cost of ERP is not low, usually staff numbers four, five hundred of companies who have to spend nearly
8, 900 thousand NT dollars to the cost of the formal operation of the system, large-scale enterprises are usually required to set aside one, two hundred million Yuan's budget. The overall cost of ERP include hardware, software and consulting services fees, the majority of the three, India takes its highest, one is a consulting services fee, the second is the ERP system software costs.
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