It is said that when Qin Shihuang deployed to destroy the Six Kingdoms, he personally made sand tables to study the geographical situation of various countries, and with the assistance of Reese, he sent general Wang Jian to carry out a unified war. Later, when Qin Shihuang built the mausoleum, he built a large terrain model. Models are not only built with mountains, hills, cities, etc. , also use mercury to simulate rivers and seas, and use mechanical devices to make mercury flow and circulate. It can be said that this is the earliest prototype of sand table, which has a history of more than 2200 years. It is recorded in the Biography of Ma Yuan in the Later Han Dynasty that when Emperor Guangwu conquered local strongmen in Tianshui and Wudu for eight years (AD 32), General Ma Yuan "gathered rice to show the situation", which made Emperor Guangwu feel that he was "in my eyes".
This is the precedent of using sand table to study tactics in the history of China War. War sand table deduction has crossed the huge cost obstacle and time and space limitation of training senior generals through actual combat, and has been widely adopted by all countries in the world. Similarly, enterprises are faced with the problem of high training cost when cultivating excellent management talents. Therefore, well-known business schools and management consulting institutions in Britain and America have developed ERP sand table simulation training, a new modern training model.
ERP sand table simulation training is different from the traditional classroom indoctrination teaching method. By using unique and intuitive teaching AIDS to simulate the real internal business environment and external competitive environment of enterprises, combined with role-playing, scenario simulation and teacher comments, students can truly experience the management process for several years in the virtual market competitive environment, and make strategic planning and decisive battle in shopping malls. ERP sand table simulation training is favored by Chinese and foreign enterprises and famous universities for its unique and novel training mode and profound and practical training effect. At present, ERP sand table simulation training has become the first choice course for management training of middle and senior managers in most Fortune 500 enterprises.
ERP sand table simulation training restores the main process of the enterprise to the whole sand table. Enterprise logistics: placing raw material orders, warehousing raw materials, organizing production, and selling orders; Enterprise capital flow: cash, loans, accounts receivable, labor costs, equipment maintenance, depreciation of fixed assets and other manufacturing expenses, advertising investment, market development, product research and development, ISO certification and other management expenses; Enterprise information flow: market forecast analysis, competitive environment, competitor operation analysis, etc.
In ERP sand table simulation training, five to eight students are divided into six groups, and each group represents an enterprise. The main functions of each enterprise are as follows: CEO, president of the company, responsible for making long-term business strategic decisions, making annual business plans, assigning members' roles, coordinating team communication and cooperation, etc. Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for enterprise fund raising, fund utilization, cost control, cash flow management and financial accounting. Production director, responsible for the formulation of enterprise production strategy, production plan, equipment update plan, etc. ;
Purchasing director, responsible for the formulation and implementation of purchasing plan, internal logistics control, etc. Marketing director, responsible for the formulation and implementation of enterprise marketing strategy, new market development plan, new product research and development plan and advertising strategy.
Each team has equal capital, equipment and fixed assets. Advertising with cash can win market orders, buy raw materials and new production lines with cash, put into production and complete delivery, get cash from customers, develop new products and markets with cash, and pay employees' wages and taxes with cash. When there is a shortage of funds, you can apply for loans from banks or sell fixed assets. After six years of operation, the successful bidder is finally judged according to the owner's rights and interests of each enterprise.
ERP sand table simulation training breaks through the limitations of traditional management training courses, allowing students to experience the whole process of enterprise operation and the limitation of enterprise resources in a series of activities such as formulating strategy, analyzing market, organizing production, overall marketing and financial settlement. Learn, consolidate and master all kinds of management knowledge and skills in the success or failure experience of various decision-making, so as to deeply understand ERP management thought and comprehend scientific management.