Study On The Processes And Methods Of Implementation Of ERP In Small To Mid-sized Enterprises

1.Summarization Facing increasingly vigorous competitive situations and the current of the internationalizations, lots of small to mid-sized the enterprises business enterprise of China want to promote the efficiency and useful nesses of the management. In order to reforming the process of operation, developing high-efficiency, many small to mid-sized the enterprises choice to establish the management information system. For the advantages of ERP in declining cost, exalting the efficiency of operation and the quick reaction to the market etc.,it is the first choice to usher the ERP . Because it is uneconomical to develop a management information system, many enterprises should buy commercial software. How to choose and choosing which software and software providers, it because a problem. The small to mid-sized enterprises have their proper characteristics. The ability of implement of ERP is one of the most important factors that will affect the choice of enterprises. UFIDA is a representative of the local supplier of ERP. Based on many years of the fulfillment foundation summary, it does a lot of quests and research in the ERP implement. Based on its years of experience, UFIDA has summarized a mature implementation methodology to standardize the implementation organization and responsibilities in order to guide its branch organizations of the whole country when they implement the ERP for their customs. Based on the process of implement in K, the article want to do some study and research on the how to promote not only the rate of success and the speed of implement but also decrease the cost of implement according their proper characteristics of the small to mid-sized enterprises. 2.Introduction of the implementation methodology of domestic and international main supplier of ERP Faced such needs, the domestic and international software providers start in the research of implementation methodology, improving the ability to implement of the system of faster and lower cost. The implementation methodology is the standard process and methods to consign the ERP system successfully under the decided business, resources, and the organization structure and up to the term etc. These standard activities and processes constitute the process model of the ERP implement. The concept of the software implement usually includes install of the system of the hardware and the software. The implement of the system of ERP usually is divided into the broaden implement and narrow implement. The concept of broaden implement of ERP mean to the whole activity from the day when the enterprise put forward the need of leading into the system of ERP to the day when The ERP system of enterprise circulates formally and attaining the anticipant implement target. In order to overcome the endless weakness of long period of R/3 implement, SAP tally up the method of a set of fast consignation ERP system named ASAP. Oracle has its own implementation method, which is made up by AIM (Oracle's Applications Integration Method) and PJM (Oracle's Project Management Method). Kingdee released "Gold-Finger Six-Step Implementation Approach"3. The background and the introduction of implementation methodology of UFIDA UFIDA Software Co. Ltd. is one of the leading providers of management software solutions and service in Asia. Established in 1988, UFIDA has been recognized as an outstanding software company in the marketplace due to its quality products, professional service and a vast customer base of 400,000 in China and other regions in Asia. Since 2000, according to the annual market report from independent market surveys such as CCID and IDC, UFIDA has occupied the No. 1 annual ranking for the managementsolutions market in China for five years. And its revenue in 2004 is equal with one of TOP 193 software vendors of 2004 in the world ranked by SoftwareMag.com. In 2003 UFIDA has became the biggest supplier of management software in China (the share is 17.6%), the biggest supplier of ERP in China (the share is 21.7%)and the biggest supplier of financial software in China (the share is 26.4%). The firm's core product lines are U8 Business Application Suite and NC Groupware. The U8 Business Application Suite consists of ERP, CRM, HR, OA and BI solutions, and is mainly focused on the SME market. NC Groupware covers multi-entity organization financial management, HR, and procurement as well as group collaboration manufacturing, and is mainly focused on the multi-entity and/or group enterprise market. Based on its years of experience, UFIDA has summarized a mature implementation methodology to standardize the implementation organization and responsibilities, rights and performance standards of both parties and to provide implementation tools, project management standards and others that concern the implementation flow. Successful application of hundred of thousands of clients show that the UFIDA implementation methodology can reduce the implementation risks, shorten the implementation cycle, ensure the implementation quality and guarantee the system implementation success to the most. There are seven steps: consulting pre-sales ,The project planning, blueprint design, system construction, switching preparation, system switching and sustained support. 4. The process of implement of UFIDA in K The company of K is Chinese and Foreign joint venture that be united to establish by the German incorporated company of K and the Changchun some science and information technology incorporated company. The main product is an automobile fuel tank. Because of the existence of disunity of data project, unsmooth workflow, unable taking out the standard cost and having no The cost control report that outside square holding company request etc. K decided to use the U860 of UFIDA. According the...