A Proposed Solution To ERP System For Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises And Design Of Internet-Based Supply Chain Interface

This thesis briefly describes the concept, theory and development history of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, and analyzes difficulties of small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) in applying ERP system from point of view of technological, economic and managerial aspects. Based on business process reengineering (BPR), a business process model in support of supply chain management (SCM) is proposed and also described by using IDEF. This thesis presents a proposed solution to ERP system for SMEs, which is based on Internet/Intranet and Browser/Server. Its software is based on Windows DNA and designed as a set of hyperlinked ASP pages. The framework for the proposed ERP includes SCServer, MServers and Browsers. A supply chain ERP system can be constructed by a SCServer in the core enterprise, and a MServers and several Browsers in each individual member enterprise. ERP applications of all members are configured and located in the SCServer, and servers are supplied for all the authorized users over Internet. Each member has its own MServer to which the ERP applications of the member located in the SCServer is mirrored. It mainly serves all the users via Intranet in an enterprise. Basic ERP system is designed for initial use of ERP, while optional modules can be selected for further internal resources planning. As an important work in the thesis, XML is used to integrate different ERP systems and achieve shared-formation. The proposed ERP system for SMEs is economic to implement, simple to implement and operate on, and really in support of supply chain management for SMEs.