Express ERP Implementation Planning Study

Express refers to express delivery of files, parcels and other contents. As abranch of the Logistics industry, express delivery is a sunrise industry with rapiddevelopment. Express industry is a labor-intensive service industry supported bylong-term investment and hi-tech. The use of Integration of all transportation linkswith hi-tech means, perfect combination with information technologies to createvalues for customers within the shortest time possible, closely related to industrial andeconomic development.Express through high-tech integration of a variety oftransportation resources, top-notch enterprises is by taking advantage of hand-holdterminals, global satellite positioning systems, automatic sorting systems and otherhigh-tech means to integrate various modes of transportation, such as air, land andrailways. In addition, such enterprises will ensure perfect harmony between operationscheduling of various means of transportation, information transmission and operatingstandards for the purpose of ensuring that shipments are safe and can be delivered tocustomers efficiently.In recent years, with the continuous development of e-commerce, Express,especially the express delivery industry has entered a rapid development cycle. Withthe strengthening and diversification of international trade business, also theincreasing openness of China’s Express market, the Express industry is facingenormous development opportunities and challenges. Enterprises must make full useof information technology to optimize resource utilization, and improve the ability torespond, and the implementation of the enterprise resource planning ERP help tochange the old management model to enhance the management level andcompetitiveness. However, from the current situation of our enterprise ERPimplementation to see, now it is still in the development stage. Even though manyenterprises have purchased and implemented the ERP system, but there is still veryhigh failure rate of ERP implementation. This case, the ERP application immatureChinese market has been particularly evident. How ERP well implementation to thisthorny Avenue all the way, is many enterprises increasingly urgent need to addressthe problem.At the beginning of the last century ABC was founded, who is a private Expressenterprises mainly specializing in express delivery and customs clearance, commodity inspection, insurance and other business. Due to the drawbacks of the enterprise’s owninformation "island" formed between the various subsystems, it is difficult to achieveinternal information sharing, and rational use of information resources is difficult.Hence, in order to better develop their business, improve management efficiency, andoptimal allocation of cost savings, ABC Company has collaborated with well-knownsoftware vendors, and enterprise management consulting firm resources, internalgradual implementation of the ERP management system, then enterprise managementproduction the process of recycling.This article describes the ABC Group’s ERP project implementation, and analysisof the status of its business, and describes a blueprint for the future planning. InBusiness Analysis, it highlights the ABC company’s strategy and management modeof operation, diagnosing respectively from the current situation regarding customerrelationships, operational, financial, human resources, materials, synthetic transaction,and for new needs to be analyzed, in addition to business needs, also put forward ademand for decision support system. Blueprint planning, blueprint framework aredescribed, including service, customers, personnel, assets, capital, strategy, projectworkflow application functionality planning, as well as the basis for settingconfiguration planning.This article is related to financial management, management information systems(MIS), organizational behavior, project management theory. On this basis, derivationthe design principles of the ERP system, Hopefully providing certain reference for theimminent implementation of the ERP project Express enterprises to improve thesuccess rate of the application of ERP Express enterprises in China.