Distribution Resource Planning (drp) And The Drp, The Virtual Enterprise

In the 21st century, the information technology on the behalf of internet technology have created one new manner of information exchanging, information sharing, and collaboration, which is not constrained by the section, the time and the computers. It not only means that the automation degree has been increased and that the management cost has been decreased. In fact, the information technology has brought an important transform of information exchange between the inside of companies and the markets, which is used in the center production and the center operation of companies, and brings the new chance for the reengineer of process flow, management model and organization construct, and then that leads to another revolution in the industrial construct and the operational mode. In the modern dog-eat-dog commercial society, weather or not get the really needed information and respond to it has become an important symbol of competence of a company.Along with the scale-up of sell, companies more and more difficultly manage their matter flow and capital flow. In order to deal with this problem, most of them try to increase salesmen and managers in their branches, in fact, which not really settles the problem. On the other way round, it makes the cost of commodity flow keeping very high, the production decision-making of factory and market decision-making be short of reliable measurable foundation. Now, the distribution cost of many companies has exceeded the cost of production and the cost of study and development of products, which has become the first part of the total cost. So, control the distribution cost is the fist problem we have to deal with.Distribution Resources Planning mostly deals with the planning and attempting of supply and demand resources aim to efficiently satisfy the market demand and decrease the scheme charge of resources to the least. And Virtual Enterprise is a new management idea and organization mode. On the base of credit and kernel competence, choose appropriate cooperation enterprises to form a virtual enterprise can make these enterprises quickly respond to the furious market environment, and increase their competition.This thesis researches DRP and virtual enterprise management idea and rebuild the traditional distribution system using the virtual enterprise ideas and DRP technology, which can improve the distribution system and the competition to adapt to the furious market environment.The skeletal framework of this thesis is just as follows. The first part explains theme's selection of the thesis, and then narrates the traditional distribution resources planning and its method in detail. The fourth part simply illuminates the VE's definition, characters and advantages, introduces the VE's basis structure, so as to explain the VE ideas. The fifth part puts the VE management ideas into the distribution management of a enterprise, and introduces DRP in detail with the VE management ideas. The sixth part analyses the case of Yunnan Copper Corporation Limited. Furthermore the seventh part analyses and designs the new development of DRP in production field and the further application of DRP.