ERP first step (1): Go near ERP
(BY AMT ERP Research Group)
Primer
In today's era, in the highly competitive big market, whether the process is still a discrete manufacturing, whether it is single-piece production, multi-variety small batch production, less variety repetition production or standard products, mass production; manufacturing inside Management may encounter the following questions: If the company may have excellent sales staff to sell products, there is no way to deliver in the production line, and the workshop management personnel complained that the purchase department did not supply the raw materials they need in time; At the end, the efficiency of the purchase department is too efficient. Some materials hoarded in the warehouse are not finished for 10 years. The warehouse library is full, the capital turn is very slow; many companies should use 6 to 13 weeks to calculate the needs The amount of material, so the order cycle can only be 6 ~ 13 weeks; the date of the order and the date and the date on the ignition list are different, no one is affirmative; the finance department does not trust the data of the warehouse department, no Calculate manufacturing costs with it. . . . . . Can not be denied, these situations are a severe problem facing our most companies, however, what can we have effective ways to solve it? - The fact that when China's business community has not fully realized the seriousness of this problem, foreign ERP / MRP II software vendors have already quietly entered the Chinese market, and over time, ERP Beginning gradually by China's business community, the theoretical world.
ERP phenomenon
Now, as long as we turn over the newspaper magazine on management and information technology, we will have a large number of MRP II / ERP advertising and related reports on paper. Just when people are still confused for what is ERP, the new generation of "ERP", "ERP", "IERP", etc., is constantly helped.
In fact, the huge benefits that ERP can have considerable temptation to many companies. According to the US Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), an MRP II / ERP system can be used, and the average can bring the following economic benefits:
1. Inventory dropped by 30% to 50%. This is what people have the most benefits. Because it can reduce the inventory investment of general users by 1.4 to 1.5 times, the inventory turnover rate is 50%. 2. Deferred delivery is reduced by 80%. When inventory is reduced and stable, the level of user service is improved, and the on-time delivery rate of using ERP / MRP II enterprises is increased by 55%, and the error rate is reduced by 35%, which makes the sales department have greatly improved. 3. The procurement period is reduced by 50%. The purchaser has a timely and accurate production plan information, which can focus on value analysis, supply selection, research negotiation strategy, understanding production problems, and shorten the purchase time and saving procurement costs. 4. Downtime is reduced by 60%. Since the transparency of parts demand is improved, the plan has also been improved, and it can be timely and accurate. The parts can be reached at a more reasonable speed. Therefore, the downtime on the production line will be greatly reduced. 5. The manufacturing cost is reduced by 12%. Due to the decline in inventory, labor savings, procurement cost savings, will inevitably cause a reduction in production costs. 6. Management level is improved, and the management will decrease by 10%, and the production capacity is increased by 10% to 15%.
In addition, in recent years, the rapid growth of the ERP market has also shown its huge development potential: from the domestic situation, China's MRP II / ERP industry has grown by approximately 27% from 1995 to 1997, while 1998 grows. The speed of up to 35% (excluding finance software), market sales reached 420 million yuan. In 1999, due to factors such as the lag effect of the Asian financial turmoil, the ERP market has a large fall. However, as the Wealth Forum was successfully held in Shanghai, the ultimate sign of the China-US WTO protocol made most of them, whether it is Chinese-funded or foreign-funded enterprises, firmly investment confidence. This makes the business opportunities in the second half of 1999 and the ERP market in 2000. The news from the Hong Kong Dafu report is expected that my country's ERP software product market will reach 10 billion yuan in the next two years. According to statistics, there are currently one thousand thousands of registered companies in China, 10% of which are large enterprises. In the South Enterprise, there are more than half of large and medium-sized enterprises to adopt and purchase ERP products, but small and medium-sized enterprises are more Less, and the purchase of ERP products in northern companies has gradually increased trends.
From the perspective of the entire international situation, according to the US authoritative market forecast research institutions AMR Research announced that the global ERP market will develop 37% in the year in the past five years. In 1998, the Global ERP market has reached 14.8 billion US dollars. By 2002, this figure will increase to 52 billion.
It can be seen from the above numbers that ERP has set off a revolution about management ideas and management technology in China or the world. More worth noting is that before MPR II has not fully recognized by China's corporate sector, it has become an ERP under the era of e-commerce in just a few years. It can be seen that this new management method and management means is in full swing in Chinese companies in China, which is in full swing in China. It is undoubtedly injecting many companies that we struggle in the market economy tide. New blood. Therefore, in order to better master and use this new management tool, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of ERP first.
