At the same time, enterprises are in a challenging environment with changing market opportunities, prices and service levels, and must constantly change and improve their business models to enhance their competitiveness. In the past, we only paid attention to the improvement of internal processes, and the improvement of product development and manufacturing level was not enough to face the current market environment. Facts show that enterprises in modern competitive environment must fully coordinate with their business partners and establish a competitive value chain in order to maintain their own survival and sustainable development.
The rational use of ERP software can help enterprises to straighten out their internal business operations, and the use of multifunctional collaboration/cooperation technology can help enterprises improve their management level, expand the competition space and improve their comprehensive ability in cross-cooperative enterprise groups and trading partners.
The rich competitive means and tools brought by e-commerce can help enterprises make better use of ERP and effectively combine the vast network business opportunities with the enterprise resource information in the traditional information system. Enterprises, customers, suppliers, traders and employees are integrated together in an unprecedented way through the network.
The sign of successful ERP application is:
First, the system operation is integrated, and the software operation spans multiple departments;
The second is to rationalize the business process and rebuild business departments at all levels according to the completely optimized process;
Thirdly, performance monitoring is dynamic, and the performance system can immediately feedback and correct the problems existing in management;
Fourth, management improvement is continuous, and enterprises can establish a mechanism of continuous self-evaluation and continuous management improvement.
ERP project is a huge systematic project, and it is not enough to buy software. ERP is more of an advanced management idea, involving a wide range, large investment, long implementation period, great difficulty and certain risks, which requires scientific methods to ensure the success of project implementation. The participation of top decision makers and all employees. The implementation of ERP involves the adjustment of enterprise internal management mode, the change of business process and a large number of personnel changes. Without the participation of business leaders, it is difficult to put it into practice. But at the same time, ERP is an enterprise-level information integration, and it is impossible to succeed without the participation of all employees. Knowledge updating. ERP is a combination of information technology and advanced management technology. Whether decision makers, managers or ordinary employees, they should master computer technology and communication technology and apply them to the management of modern enterprises. Standardized data. ERP system realizes the global sharing of enterprise data. As a management information system, it processes data. Data standardization is the premise of information integration, and only on this basis can information be accurate, complete and timely. Therefore, the implementation of ERP must make great efforts to prepare basic data. For example, product data information, customer information, supplier information, etc.