Research On Some Problems Of IT Planning Of Longyan Cigarette Factory

IT planning is the inevitable choice of the informationization development in the advanced stage.After technical reform in 2003,Longyan Cigarette Factory has applied information technology in all business aspects to better combine technology and management,promoting the management and business optimization,which has played a strong supporting role to make "Septwolves" brand bigger and stronger to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises.After several years of exploration and practice,Longyan Cigarette Factory implemented Manufacturing Execution System(MES) on execution layer and Logistics Automation Systems and Tobacco Shag Monitoring System on control layer to reach the data,functional and business integration objective,and thus led the factory to leap qualitatively in the information resources usage and the development level.After several rounds of verification and serious research study as well as the environmental analysis on the tobacco industry, information technology development,corporate strategy and such detailed analysis, the decision was conducted from the beginning of 2004 to implement the development of IT planning and Enterprise Application Integration(EAI) building.IT planning in detail describes the Longyan Cigarette Factory informationization construction blueprint for the overall plan and framework,and highlights the recommendations of the blueprint for the construction of ideas and methods,thus guides a comprehensive scientific system of Longyan Cigarette Factory in the coming 3-5 years.Informationization offered Longyan Cigarette Factory as a means to optimize the management,the achievements of digital enterprises,improving the competitiveness of enterprises.Longyan Cigarette Factory IT enterprise development strategy planning is an important part of its business development objectives.It sets development strategies as the guide,the production and operation and management decision-making as fundamental on combining the practice of building informationization,technology trends,describes the enterprise information construction of the overall planning of the blueprint and framework,and proposes a blueprint for the proposed construction of ideas and methods,thus formed a comprehensive system to guide the next 3 to 5 years of information technology,made information technology as a means to optimize enterprise management,achieve Digital Enterprise,improve the competitiveness of enterprises and create competitive advantage. IT planning in Chinese enterprises conduct really little.How to integrate IT application with enterprise strategy(business model),organization,business process and management system is the key and difficult points of IT planning research.It is seldom studied in previous papers.Basing on the situation of Longyan Cigarette Factory,an advanced enterprise in information construction in Chinese tobacco industry,this paper studies some problems of IT planning in the factory.(1)Based on the "mesoscale" business pattern proposed by professor Weng Junyi in Xiamen University,the influence of enterprise business pattern and operation pattern to IT planning is analyzed.So how to support business pattern and operation pattern with IT should be demonstrated in IT planning.(2)Supporting management system and safeguard measures needed by the implementation of IT planning.All these researches are active attempts and significant probes in IT planning process so as to provide useful guidance to other tobacco enterprises and even other industries in exploring how to construct enterprise informationization blueprint,analyze the important influence of enterprise business pattern and operation pattern to IT planning and supporting management system and safeguard measures needed by the implementation of IT planning from the strategic height.Some analyze to the existing problems was made to meet the need to carry out the next step work.