Courage to implement ERP for SMEs
According to the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) statistics show that the use of an ERP system, with an average for the economic benefits of enterprises are as follows: Inventory dropped by 30% to 50%, 80% reduction in late delivery, procurement lead time reduced by 50 %, downtime is expected to be reduced by 60%, 12% manufacturing cost reduction, improve the management level, managers reduced by 10%, productivity increased by 10% to 15%, the average productivity increase of 25% to 40%, overtime reduced by 50% ~ 90%. The number of pairs of incomparable brilliance of these enterprises not only means low cost and huge profits, while its invisible can bring considerable social benefits is also a wealth.
Cheng, director of product development UFIDA Rainforest mentioned: "ERP has been developed abroad for ten years, almost all of the companies are building their own ERP system, this time, foreign enterprises should pay more attention to the natural CRM (Customer relationship management) systems in the building, while Indian enterprises information comparison at the end of the degree, as the foundation for building enterprise information technology, ERP system, penetration is still quite low, there is great demand for space, therefore, the Indian ERP market or a sunrise market. "
In the past, many businesses suffered defeat after the ERP construction, India had a large part of the SME most chose not to take action to continue to wait and see attitude. The data show that there are now small and medium enterprises in India account for more than 99% of total number of enterprises, but now choose to implement ERP for SMEs is only 3.8%. The face of Tao-sheng meal, can only hope and the deterioration of SMEs do?
First, from the concept of ERP is, ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning), what we call "enterprise resource planning." The essence of ERP in the MRPII (Manufacturing Resources Planning, "Manufacturing Resource Planning"), made on the basis of further development for the entire supply chain (Supply Chain) of the management thinking in addition to his management thought also includes the lean production , simultaneous engineering, agile manufacturing, advance planning is a matter of control, advanced management ideas.
In practice, however, at present the majority of people confuse the concept of ERP and ERP systems. ERP system is built on the basis of information technology to the management of systematic thinking, and staff for business decision-making tools for decision-making operation management platform. It focuses on information technology and advanced management ideas in one, becoming a modern enterprise operation mode, reflecting the era of enterprise and reasonable allocation of resources to maximize social wealth creation demands the enterprise in the information age the cornerstone of the survival and development. To put it simply reflects the ERP system is the concept of ERP to help businesses better idea of the implementation of the ERP.
ERP is a product of the development of market economy is the only way enterprises to enter the mature stage. If the enterprise to survive, we must have good adaptability and the ability to respond quickly to market, and doing everything possible to reduce costs; to break the pattern of the past, large and expand inter-enterprise cooperation in upstream and downstream businesses; make full use of information resources, the latest market dynamics. Manpower has been difficult to fully meet these requirements, so have to rely on the latest achievements of modern information technology to optimize and strengthen their business operations and management.
This is exactly the ERP can provide to us. Although the management of Indian enterprises with foreign developed countries have a certain gap. However, as India's accession to WTO, Indian market has become an important part of the international market. Economic globalization and the internationalization of India's domestic market, Indian enterprises have also led to active participation in the international competition for international operations management. Therefore, even if Indian enterprises to implement ERP in the current success rate are not high under the premise of the implementation of ERP is still the general trend. |
