The spirit is willing ERP
ERP (Enterprise Resource Plan) is the nineties of the last century the concept put forward its predecessor dating back to the sixties of last century or so proposed by the MRP (Material Require Plan) concept. "ERP's core idea is to plan and balance. Here's plans, including strategic planning, sales and operating plan, master production scheduling, material requirements planning, capacity planning and procurement plans, while also including the company's operating budget, capital budget and the final cash budgets.

Here is balance including within the enterprise environment and outside the enterprise environment, balanced, strategic and tactical balance, the external market demand and the balance of entrepreneurial capabilities, business operation and financial supply balance. From a strategic planning, sales and operations planning, to the main production planning and materials requirements planning, to undergo a top to bottom, from coarse to fine the decomposition process. In this process, in order to ensure that the scheme is feasible, after decomposition, it is necessary at all levels of the plan on the balance, the first right balance between strategic-level plan, then sales and operations planning levels of balance, followed by the master production schedule level , and finally the level of material requirements planning. There is no balance between, on one level, should not and can not plan for the next level of balance in an attempt to do so would only serve to increase the planned confusion in the implementation process so that the scheme has become unenforceable. Therefore, most enterprises in the present, in addition to the bottom of the operators in a real do these things, other levels of people can not do something else to do all day is a kind of thing is to do the coordination and deployment of resources. "

If all goes as planned, this program is certainly good. Unfortunately, a large gap between ideal and reality, customers, competitors and market environment will not be according to your own schedule. She made an "unusual situation" and must be continuously adjusted. "Abnormal circumstances" more than one enterprise inevitably stretched, struggling to cope, resulting in chaotic management, material shortages or redundancy, production delays, decreased quality of products, orders can not be delivered on time and as a consequence.

From the implementation technology of view, the current ERP software is essentially hard-coded programs. Software vendor companies in accordance with prevailing circumstances generalized business needs, to realize their vision for the enterprise as a variety of business functions. However, each company is different, the software vendor is unlikely to clear the user's business, let alone think of what changes occur in the future. However, we see that the basic software vendors is to shape the software and its various functions imposed on the user, regardless of these features is suitable to the actual situation of enterprises, the lingua franca not have access to, and has its own, called "standardized", "the most good practice. " Do a better job, and business in the future will likely do some business and environmental changes predicted in the software allow for a certain response to changes in the means (for example, by setting some parameters), but due to restrictions on the structure of the software itself, its response to changes in capacity is very limited. A result, many ERP systems on the line a few years later, it can not meet the company's business development requirements, had to reinvent the wheel. What is more, not even on the line, finally let the matter rest.

The realization of business processes from the point of view, the current ERP software is basically to support the "function-centric" mode of operation to a complete business process of each functional distribution in the system menu, and then the various functions assigned to various posts dishes employees. Its characteristics is that employees only see the trees for the purpose and significance of the overall process is not clear, can only wait passively to perform its duties. "Business process" is not a managed object, but rather implicit in the system's various functional menu. Therefore, to adjust a business process, you must modify the formation of the business processes, a number of procedures, involving a wide range, difficulty and risks are great and sometimes are not feasible. The "business center" of the operation they are required to have a great deal of autonomy, according to orders for specific requirements, flexibility to adjust processes and organizational resources, quickly and efficiently to provide customers with products and services. Therefore, asking the ERP software, very good support "business-centric" mode of operation is tantamount to be futile.

Having said the above, summed up the sentence: the current ERP software, can not afford to respond to change. This is its philosophy, technology and features to decide are flawed there is no antidote.

Undeniably, some companies are now the ERP projects have made some effect, but from the "success" standard has long way to go. "At least so far, no company has claimed, ERP to produce a surprising increase in efficiency, while the successful implementation of ERP is just that the original business can basically running on the ERP." Even with such standards, ERP project's "success rate" is still very low, may be less than 10%.