E-commerce era in the development of a new generation of ERP
1. ERP and supply chain integration. ERP system in the emphasis on improving internal efficiency, customer service-driven enterprise had to adjust the operation of the logistics process, implementation and business partners (suppliers, customers, etc.) collaborative commerce supply chain management, focusing on the enterprise external resources, such as supply providers, customers and operators of the coordination and management. ERP more in line with modern supply chain management concept as a basis for e-commerce enterprises, ERP for the enterprise to achieve a modern supply chain management provides a solid information platform.

2. ERP and information management technology, e-commerce technology integration. A new generation of ERP on the one hand to achieve the management thinking into the enterprise management integration; the other hand, ERP systems to achieve between their own internal, ERP and other application systems integration. The first aim is to solve the integrated management thinking, management methods and the application of interaction between management systems. The second aspect of integration of ERP and other key functions to achieve integration between subsystems, including: with the CRM (customer relationship management); and e-commerce, collaborative commerce; and PDM (product data management); and MES (Manufacturing Execution System) ; and workflow management system to further integrate and strengthen DW (Data Warehouse) and OLAP (online analytical processing) functions. According to integration of different content can be divided into data-sharing model, business transfer type, message passing type, compound, etc., and many integration are complex.

In short, the future direction of development and trends in the ERP is to further and e-commerce, customer relationship management, supply chain management and other enterprise application systems integration. The management of ERP continues to expand the scope of the trend in the business operation of the main e-commerce customer relationship management, office automation (OA) and other systems will continue to melt one ERP system. In addition, ERP system with CAD, CAM, CAP and other systems integration and transfer data with each other.

Based on the advantages of e-commerce a new generation of ERP
1. Integration of internal and external resources: allows enterprises and departments to share production information, to avoid the lengthy process and production management operations blind spots; integration of supply chain resources, improve enterprise's core competitiveness.

2. Quickly to meet customer individual requirements: to make the market and customer information, order information, products and customer service feedback information through the ERP system processing analysis, and timely delivery to the ERP systems and corporate planning departments, enhance the dynamic response capabilities, full reflect the needs of manufacturing enterprises on the market thinking.

3. To increase customer satisfaction: to strengthen customer loyalty and trust, and further strengthen the customer-centric business philosophy.

4. To improve cost management and profit and loss analysis of efficiency: the product, inventory, purchasing, administrative costs of the four full control to ensure that enterprises maximize the benefits.

5. The latest software-based systems of the high level of integration: to make enterprise management more intelligent and scientific.

Internet in the global supply chain to improve operational efficiency, expand business opportunities and strengthen the inter-enterprise collaboration provides a more powerful tool - e-commerce platform. In e-commerce environment, their company's existing ERP system, put forward new demands, so that even more powerful ERP functionality, broadening the extension of ERP, so that from the background into foreground, from the inside toward the outside direction from a focus on production-oriented sales , markets and services, and ERP applications will be extended to non-manufacturing sector, the ERP into the development of a new heaven and earth.