On Application And Appraisal Of ERP In China

With the increasing degree of globalization and integration of world economy, competition between enterprises becomes more and more intense on an international level. To maintain competitive edge in the market, more and more enterprises has been adopting ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). As a new management model and tool, ERP has gradually been acknowledged by the academic circle as well as the business circle. Its application has expanded from the manufacturing industries to all lines of business. Fundamentally speaking, what concerns the enterprises most is the exact effect and benefit they could get from the development and application of ERP. From the preliminary decision of introducing it in, to the substantial operation, the application of ERP is a huge, time-consuming and money-consuming project that involves every single step of an enterprise's operation. For an enterprise pursuing the maximization of profit, it's very difficult to foresee any substantial and concrete benefit of ERP in a short term. Recent years saw lots of news about ERP's high failure rate, which scared many enterprises away. Thus, a reasonable appraisal tool for the effect of ERP is in urgent need.How to appraise the effect of ERP implementation has long been an unsolved problem for both academic and business circles. The appraisal of ERP's effect is, in essence, the appraisal of the enterprise's efficiency and performance under ERP environment. At present, for this effect, there is no full-scale, authoritative and satisfying appraising system or methods. This article, starting from the basic principles of ERP, intends to probe on the possibility of appraising enterprise...