Industry Analysis: the power industry status and trends of ERP system selection
This extended to the implementation of SAP's ERP System Inc. The case, to set the power industry in the ERP system selection and implementation on a number of trends that should be attention.
For large-scale management software (ERP), power enterprises are to choose customization system, or choose to sophisticated suite of software? Eyes of the beholder, the wise views about that customized systems and sophisticated software packages, like the advantages and disadvantages are obvious. If the maturity of the ERP package can solve 80% of the electricity business needs, then, "a mature suite ERP + a small amount of customization," is not the best, most economical and most susceptible to the outcome of the solutions?
For large systems ERP, application of sophisticated suite of business software is tailored more suitable for large-scale power enterprise group information needs are currently under discussion - a hot topic.
Mature and with industry software suite characterized by achievements in best practices more easily
Suite must be for a feature set and needs a pool exists, it can not be the business needs of the universe, they can not all-inclusive, such as the ERP software packages, based on SOA architecture, software packages or services to suit SaaS, cloud computing packages and so on. Packaged software to meet the 70% of the more common enterprise management and production needs, inevitably playing on custom as a supplement. Which are politically mature enough for end-users should be easier to judge because as a software as some senior advisers said 7:2:1 rules, 7006 is similar to 20% in line with industry characteristics, 10% of companies reflects the special requirements of that 90% of the mature functions of the software does not require additional configuration can be achieved, the real configuration or through the secondary development of less than 10%. Otherwise, you can think that this software is not a very mature software.
Mature industry, characterized by the so-called packaged software, it should be understood to be professional software to re-shuffle combinations broken up after the suite, but at the same time, the software features covering multi-disciplinary requirements. National Thermal Power Co., Ltd. Dong technical adviser that "The emphasis on industry characteristics, to a large extent by the industry regulations and standards of production constraints." However, the software life cycle is not synchronized with the corporate life cycle, their respective experiences the infancy, growth, maturity, recession formed S-shaped curves. If the software and enterprise of the two communities over time, the progress curve can be evolved, and can, through their continuous improvement to eliminate the contradiction between such a sophisticated software packages can be called best practices.
Jeniffer Co., IT project manager believes that the industry with tailor-made ERP compared with mature software packages in the development cycle, stability is obviously better than the customized software. The reasons why the main reason being criticized, because the majority of packaged software design ideas with domestic operators in the actual business model is different. In different sub-sectors and types of production processes, manufacturing in different ways, the product type, quite different planning models, business processes are still evolving, its industry-specific software is often not reflected in the suite. Manufacturers often say, "for a variety of industries," "suitable for all kinds of enterprises", but allows users to no avail, no choice. Even if the well-known ERP vendors are also divided into a number of key sectors for the version of best business practices, there is often not in conformity with "India's national conditions," ills. Therefore, the selection often becomes the key to the success of ERP implementation.
Nelson pointed out that the Jeniffer second reason for generating the company's ERP project with a mature suite ERP system, SAP, one overall plan based on company information, a need for a power plant from the holding company to a comprehensive management solution , followed by the SAP product, taking into account the absorption of western management theory research results and world-class business experience in implementing and using information systems to achieve a mature, comprehensive management software. Therefore, the second generation companies Janiffer chose SAP to build the core information technology platform, which selected the SAP's "mature suite" software.
For now, mature in the power generation area of ERP package implementation and application is not yet universal, mainly because customers tailor-made system in the power of information technology a long time. With the different stages of launch, tailored customization system in the development, implementation and scalability, application flexibility increasingly show different characteristics. Dong believes that the implementation phase in the development, the leadership of the customization system is often very high expectations and look forward to an immediate, while the business needs of the emphasis on self-evolution of the implementation of both hard and soft force, IT professionals, from top to bottom to appease, left and right balance, in such an atmosphere the system advances are often not as good as wished. "Despite the technical specifications in the tender book have been expanded requirements, in fact everyone understands that each system is in fact a Deal or No Deal, the next time when extended to what might, but in the future may not be re-use such a structure, or technology. Therefore, in the system during its implementation, application flexibility, basically to meet the customer's requirements, but when the client application for some time after the request for such flexibility is no longer provided by the system configuration flexibility can be resolved. Customers a so-called flexibility, to a large extent not a system at the operational level of flexibility, but the system needs to adapt to new requirements or changes in the flexibility, resulting in customized system governance can be maintained within a certain cycle, scalability and application flexibility. but on the software itself and enterprises in terms of the life cycle of the two communities can not be synchronized is the most fatal lie. "
Thus, in some ways in terms of, no matter decomposition, finishing and curing, customer choice, but is a set of rigid mold. Is even more rich and mature suite of flexible, can change in the life cycle relative to health were long and more through time constraints for enterprise growth and sustainable development of space. |
