Research On The Executive Support System In ERP Teaching Simulation Environment

Current ERP teaching simulation software generally ignores the importance of the role of CEO. It lacks of practical and effective office platform, which makes CEO can not really participate in the enterprises operations. To solve this problem, this dissertation studies and develops the executive support system, proving the office platform and sciectific decisions for CEO, and realizing CEO's functions be reflected.Firstly, this dissertation analyzes the CEO's problems with business flow of current ERP teaching simulation system, and identifies the CEO's functions in ERP simulation environment based on actual manager functions and the characteristics of ERP simulation experiment. Furthermore, the function platform for executive support system is determined. On this basis, system architecture and all functional modules are designed, and the structural model, dynamic model, and functional model of system are designed with I2DEF, making a unified description of the system structure, data flow and event flow. In addition, it designs the subject database based on OLAP in order to respond quickly to inquiries and analysis needs of CEO. While the component-based model base is designed, completing the core component of decision support, and achieving the flexible model management and the background control.Finally, this dissertation develops and implements the executive support system with VB.NET programming language in .NET framework platform of Visual Studio 2005. And it takes the ERP teaching simulation software, which is developed by ERP group in Management and Information System Lab of the Harbin University of Science and Technology, as the background to do empirical research. The results prove that the executive support system has good practicality, effectively support CEO for planning and control function, and enhance the teaching effectiveness of ERP simulation.