Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)

The article starts with the impact brought by the development of information technology on the enterprise business management.It states that Business Process Reengineering(BPR) is the necessary approach to improve business management for modern enterprises,and explains the relationship between BPR and Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP).The article solves the problems of how to implement ERP as well as the practical application issues after the implementation by introducing the management concept,methods and the characteristics of the software.In addition,case study on implementation of ERP is added in the article. The work aims to improve cognition of ERP and figure out how to carry ERP into action as well as the application issues after the implementation.Thus,it guides Chinese International Commercial and Trade Enterprises and any Chinese enterprises in other industries which carry ERP out to enhance their management level in reality.The structure of the article is as follows:beginning with the current situation of the development of information technology,the article analyzes the tremendous differences on the business management flow between the modern corporations in information age and the big industrial production corporations in industrialization age.Information has changed the way people produce,live and think,so that it's necessary to reconstruct the enterprise flow in information age. The work comprehensively introduces the development,main traits and application situation of ERP as the IT solution of BPR.It explains the necessity of implementing ERP in Chinese international trade companies and how to carry out ERP by studying two Chinese international trade companies' implementation case.Taking the case studies and the current situation of implementing ERP in Chinese corporation,the work puts forward that correctly understand ERP is the crucial factor of successfully implementing ERP.If there's wrong understanding on ERP,the chances of failure or failing to reach the expecting goal would be very high when implementing it.When the corporation implements ERP,they should consider corporative information strategy as well as information basis and carry out BPR.They shall choose the software which match with the corporative management development and have a strong support from management capital.In addition,they shall renew staffs' concept by training.When implementing ERP project,enterprise should analyze the demand,make implementing plan,set up project implementing team,carry on BPR and go ahead training,work on the Standard Data and experiment on the system.In order to avoid the failure while implementing the project,we should correct the understanding of ERP,improve the coordinating ability of the project implementing team,enhance training and choose related software,as well as pay attention to the Standard Data.Since there will be differences on the real effect and expecting results,systematic data utility and talents built-up etc,the article comes up with relevant schemes after analyzing all the problems.The market changes dramatically all the time.Survival from the fittest is the rule of market economy.No company can gain competitive advantage in the market if it cannot adapt to the challenge of the reform and adopt advanced management concept and methods.Therefore,the innovation of enterprise management model and the improvement of the management require never can be stopped.Since it's difficult to renew the software thoroughly in integrated software usage for good-sized corporative groups,thus,ERP system could become the permanent project which grows with the enterprise after implementing ERP system.Furthermore,ERP will improve continuously accompanying with the innovation of corporation management.The work introduces the ERP theory systematically and completely by adopting the deductive methods of explaining the theory,researching on the practical cases and summarizing the cases in reality.It shares the successful experience of implementing ERP within Chinese international commercial and trade enterprises.What's more,it comes up with the common questions which corporations confront while carrying out ERP and finally solves the problems like: how to successfully use ERP management concept and ideology? How to implement ERP project successfully? The application issues and related plans after the successful implementation should be taken into consideration.The work especially expatiates on the difficulties in implementation and application as well as the key factors in relation to the success or failure in the project.It guides Chinese corporations how to implement and apply to ERP,also directs Chinese modern enterprises to improve management level.