Erp Applications In The Virtual Enterprise

Today when the globalization of economics has been come true, with the rapid development of the computer and network technology, the market environment is increasingly complex, competition between the enterprises and competition between sectors are also increasingly conspicuous. This brings to the enterprises a huge challenge. The ability of individual enterprise is inevitably confined by resources, human, technology, geography and other factors, simultaneously, whether the enterprises themselves have capabilities to response rapidly with the market is increasingly influence the competitive advantage of enterprises. To seize the market opportunities quickly and response to the market requirement timely has been the key for the enterprises to be victorious in the competition.Virtual Enterprise emerged in this context. It's a new type of dynamic enterprise union, to integrate the resources, which geographically dispersed dynamically under the support of computer networks and communication technologies, so the entity enterprises, which own the resources, could make full use of the advantage resources of other enterprises when they provide their own advantage resources. It will not only reduce costs and realize the sharing of resources, but also enhanced individual enterprises' flexibility in facing the rapidly changing market environment, to realize the fundamental purpose of grasping the market opportunities promptly. But when all kinds of advantaged resources are integrated, how to make effective use of these resources to achieve the optimum distribution of resources is a current problem, which needs to be resolved urgently.Early Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) is established on the basis of information technology, it is guided by the systematic management thinking, to plan and control the enterprise's internal resources effectively, helping the enterprise to achieve the internal integration of logistics, capital flow and the flow of information, in order to obtain the maximum benefit. But early ERP system just realized effective management of the internal resources of the enterprise, it can't make a timely response of the market environment, which is changing continuously, and the needs of customers, so it's unsuitable for Virtual Enterprise.The aim of the paper is to resolve the problem—how to make effective use of all kinds of advantaged resources that in the virtual enterprise and realize the rational allocation of the resources. That is why we bring up the idea of Virtual Enterprise Resource Planning. Virtual Enterprise Resource Planning is the concept which combining the tow concepts, Virtual Enterprise and ERP. According to the approach that early ERP applies to the inner of the enterprise, the new system V-ERP could be applied to Virtual Enterprise to achieve the purposes of resource optimization in Virtual Enterprise.The article begins with a brief introduction of Virtual Enterprise and ERP, as well as research status and development trends of domestic and international; Following is the concept of Virtual Enterprise Resource Planning and a detailed description of the network structure of the new system V-ERP, such as the modules that involved in the new system and these modules' specific functions, and then is an account of the technical requirements in building the new system; In order to resolve the problems such as the unified of data model and the reorganization of the business process in the new system, the corresponding solutions and the related technologies involved are provided; Finally, by the case of "METERSBONWE 'virtual business'", vividly described how the V-ERP system has been used in the enterprise, meanwhile, the article outlined three years' detailed data of the enterprise, in order to account that using the virtual business model which combining the V-ERP system is an inevitable trend in the competitive market environment.