Into the 21st century, the domestic enterprise information technology caused a sensation, many corporate executives are thinking about how digital the first step in the walk is to choose ERP IT?
Indian companies are catching up with the current digital boom; "ERP" is more like "just the bun pan, four fragrance." See all publicity, many companies toward the logical first ERP (enterprise resource planning system). Some companies even mistakenly thought that once on the ERP, the enterprise's resources can be introduced to information systems, including the collaborative product development process management. In fact, ERP systems only in the lower reaches of the product life cycle process by tracking and maintaining business accounts processing information, such as monitoring products, inventory levels, improve the accuracy of production planning has played a major role, rather than digital product development, production, sales and after-sales service of the whole process of ERP and therefore can not simply substitute PLM. That is why it already has ERP,SCM and CRM after such, PLM systems will appear in front of the reason lies in people.
On the other hand, some companies see the advantages of PLM system, after they begin to blindly deny ERP. For example, some people believe that PLM can speed products to market rate, and called for it is a major weakness of ERP, ERP system means that R & D management and product management areas has achieved absolutely nothing at all. In fact not the case, ERP in assisting enterprises to speed products to market also plays a very important role. For example, you can quickly integrate ERP market for our products around the world the views, needs, and expectations of price, these data can speed up the decision by the enterprise product portfolio and the pace of investment; In addition, ERP can also reduce the acceptance of customer orders, internal processing, and product delivery and other work time. Therefore not been a comprehensive consideration that that the ERP did not like the PLM to help enterprises accelerate the pace of new products to market, but also inappropriate.
Of course, the complexity of the product increases, product life cycles, increase the proportion of personalized products, low-priced products, trends, and global competition, there are several factors to make product development has become more important. According to renowned research institutions abroad, a survey to 2000, sales of new products created by the revenue and profits, the U.S. technology industry already accounts for revenues and profits 37%, the success of new product development; business growth target could be reached on the impact of getting bigger and bigger. In addition, increasing competition with globalization, the speed is the company beat the opponent's most important weapon Among them, the speed of product development (decision TTM, Time to Market) and the production rate of distribution (decision TTV, Time to Volume) the most important.
In addition to the pressure on profitability and survival, the enterprises in R & D activities, also face serious challenges, such as: an increase parts standardization, modularity, make full use of standard parts and modular components be combined to form as many products; and to improve the product serialization and flexible, according to the needs of individual evolution of a multi-variant products. Second, these two key solution to the problem mainly through technical innovation and standardization of design, technical work undertaken to carry out, which is precisely the area of ERP systems can not be solved. Therefore, in order to better adapt to mass customization production and meet growing customer demand for personalized, the introduction of PLM to strengthen R & D efficiency and effectiveness of the manufacturing sector has been an unavoidable choice.
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