Understand the characteristics of enterprise software industry, the basic strategy of selection
Analyzed and corporate sector-specific and personalized, they can have the right architecture for enterprise information technology to provide the fundamental basis for the general framework. Enterprises with their management bottlenecks and demand information to develop a practical short medium and long-term planning. Plan-making process that is business-to-own management processes, mode of operation to review the process of reflection will help in the planning process of their own grasp of the demand; the other hand, the right choice for the enterprise software provides the fundamental basis. Enterprises according to their production, procurement, sales, inventory, equipment, cost management differences, the control functions of ERP software, how to choose its own characteristics of the application software.

Some of the existing ERP software, the industry is divided into general-purpose software and industry-oriented software. If you press this division, enterprises have to choose general-purpose software, or choose the industry-oriented software. Are talking about here be divided into general and industry, our understanding is: Universal software is suitable for all sectors of the software, the software industry, is suitable for a particular industry or particular sectors of the software version. Through many years of information technology in learning, practice, we believe that: present time when all the software company's products, have their own characteristics and market positioning objects, are fully applicable to all industries common personalization software may be small (in particular, is the domestic software). Some software companies according to their market position will form a best practice in certain sectors, which is the successful implementation of ERP systems are of great significance.

It was suggested that ERP is a project, rather than the product, its meaning is important to note the implementation of ERP on ERP software, starting from this level, business, or should choose appropriate trade-specific ERP software for good. In fact, many success stories also shows that: the software companies have chosen a basic strategy is: "do not have to select the best software, should choose the most suitable software."

As the ERP system implementation success rate in our country is not satisfactory, making some domestic famous ERP software vendors adjusted business strategy, and began to trade and industry to implement service transformation, and introduced a number of versions, such as chemicals, paper version, beer and other industries version software, and some vendors even proposed that only engage in business services, not to engage in full bloom, indicating the domestic software vendors on the industry's attention to services.

Understanding of the business sector-specific software selection of the basic strategy but not the only strategy. Software selection should also follow the other relevant principles, such as:

"First pre-training, and select the software" principle. Because the company has only to understand the basic principles of ERP and basic feature, in order to control their own desires in order to choose software, "must not be understood in the absence of MRP before, and went to choose software";

"Guided by the software selection process" principle selection of the main steps in the software as follows:

1. About peer enterprise applications;
2. Access Software Company;
3. Watch software demonstrations;
4. Data test;
5. Access software, a typical user;
6. Comprehensive assessment software.

Data inspection software, adaptive testing is an effective method. Specific approach is to select a simplified product or component (about 10 - 20 materials) basic data collation, preparation companies need to solve the problem, the use of the software company's software practice. Test data can be visually inspected the software running results, evaluation software functions of the business needs flexibility. Data test is best carried out in the enterprise so that managers can more directly understand the ERP software, operating results. For some are suitable for the characteristics of enterprise software industry, it is necessary a detailed analysis of its products and business current management methods and practices of the consistency of the module can be used in whole or part of the module can be used or need secondary development, development of volume much as possible to find the most suitable ERP enterprise personalization software.

Selection of software should also consider the following factors: 1, should be selected mature application software; 2, to consider the possibility of long-term collaboration software vendors; 3, select the custom software should be careful; 4, choose a foreign software should take into account its own conditions; 5, should be comprehensive consideration of software prices. In a number of factors, "select the appropriate type, and industry-specific enterprise manufacturing mature software" and "select implementation experience and long-term cooperation may be the service provider," is particularly important. "Software is mature, and implementation experience is rich there must be many success stories to validate."

In summary, chemical companies have chosen ERP software, it should be in accordance with "functional application of technology is suitable for" basic principles, taking into account the above factors, many of the selection of the ERP vendors to select the most suitable ERP software.