SOA not only short-term demand for the company's services and, more importantly, it can also enhance the back-office processes, such as finance, personnel management, procurement efficiency. By providing a more flexible IT infrastructure available, the company can further extend their competitive edge to seize new customers and new sales opportunities.
Compared with its predecessors, today's living environment has become increasingly complex: the ever-rising process automation requirements of increasingly complex technology, tight budgets, coupled with ready flexibility to respond to changes in market demand, all of these reasons, there is not small companies trying to ERP systems using SOA. SOA not only short-term demand for the company's services and, more importantly, it can also enhance the back-office processes, such as finance, personnel management, procurement efficiency. By providing a more flexible IT infrastructure available, the company can further extend their competitive edge to seize new customers and new sales opportunities.
The complexity of ERP systems and mismanagement, the company would create the following problems:
Hampered the company's rapid response to business issues;
To generate additional resources and costs to obtain the hidden data;
The establishment of new processes and systems to improve the cost and resources;
Multiple systems in use and a lack of communication between departments and individuals.
To solve the above problem, companies need to make innovations and practices of the following business:
In quotes from suppliers in a supplier feedback to improve the production and delivery on time degrees;
Strengthen human resource management, staff turnover, staff training and staff performance;
Adjust the general-purpose processes, reduce redundancy costs;
Outsourcing non-core, high-cost business processes.
The combination of SOA architecture, ERP systems, companies can create additional competitive advantages, such as:
Easy to move existing processes to the new environment;
Integration of business intelligence and technical capabilities, increase economies of scale;
By creating the ability to adjust the asset structure of the compound used to enhance existing processes;
Alternative custom programming;
Provide a more user-friendly interface;
To streamline the technology infrastructure. |
