Business Process Reengineering Practice

For recent years, the state-owned foreign trade companies have been facing more and more pressures and difficulties, including outside competition pressures from international and domestic markets and inside existing old system. How to change this situation and find the solution is very important for companies. BPR (Business Process Reengineering) , proposed by Hammer is one of important management improving method, which has been practiced and proved by a lot famous global leader companies. In this paper, we focus on the application of BPR in a trade company, and through which some experiences and effects can be summarized.On the basis of introducing of BPR, its relevant theories and methods, an implementation framework is proposed for the specific trade company. At the first stage of the BPR practice, the reformation of property rights, organizational re-structuring and new corporate culture building should be completed, which establish a good precondition for the next BPR implementation. Considering the key processes for a trade company in new environment, the credit-control process and exporting operational process were redesigned and verified. It proved that the practice of BRP for the company can help to increase the revenues and profits. The most important is that it made a good beginning for the sustaining improvement in future. The practice shows that the BPR is one of important solution for companies to get rid of predicament facing great changing environments.