"Scale can produce benefits." Compliance with this law hopes to be in an advantage in the fierce competition in the future by joint, mergers and acquisitions, and build aircraft carrier. But tired of system integration, spend a lot of time to open all subsystems, whether the efficiency can
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The three sets of information systems are running in China's internal architecture. Hong Kong China Resources, the independent operation of a certain store in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, and other stores have been unified to operate the original Wanjia system. This is a situation after more than two years of difficult information system integration. "In 2002, we began to integrate the post-purchased information system, but many stores reflected there. The integration of Zhongshan store was put down. Hong Kong China Run is because there are many different mainland in terms of the name of the goods, and hold a set alone. System. "China Resources Wanjia Co., Ltd. IT Senior Director Xiong Jie explained.
The ass "Running Rotation" ass 2002 China Run started crazy expansion movement. At the end of February 2002, China Resources completed 100% of Wanjia Department Store, renamed China Resources. Enterprises that only mergers and acquisitions have five different systems. Each has its own purchase and distribution method. Decision makers face the unified issue of different information systems in addition to people's integration. If you make the system run independently, it is imperative to use the scale effect of the merger. In order to accelerate the pace of M & A, China Resources chose to directly unify the end system. The original Wanjia information system became the group company's primary system. Other systems including the original China Resources are unpacking and unloading, installing 10,000 systems. "Some stores have been cut twice in just two years. The stored store has just changed a system, and the group is replaced by the system." Xiong Jie reflected. The system is integrated, but the business cannot stop, it is a bit like "driving the car to change the tire". Xiong Jie admit that if integrated integration has no impact on the business, it is a falsehood. "Some impact is that customers can feel, such as the cash register suddenly can't brush some price, but some of the customers don't feel, such as which process is blocked by the internal process." "Now our information construction is basically in one The strategic reflection and planning level, re-thinking about the previous information construction. "Xiong Jie said. The experience of China Resources Wanjia is not an example. Since 2002, in the case of the foreign retail industry, the local supermarket began the cyclone mergers and acquisitions and heavy waves. Not only Hua Qun mergers, Shanghai Lianhua and Hualian, Friendship Shares, Shanghai One hundred and other forms of China's retail industry's largest aircraft carrier - Bailian Group. In 2003, Dalian Commercial Group had hundreds of commercial retail enterprises and Beijing's Tianshui in Northeast. In 2004, Beijing's Weimei purchased a supermarket. At present, there is almost every acquisition experience in the scale of China's chain industry scale. "The more large-scale supermarkets, the more confusing the information system. The system in which the integration and purchase," Yang Qingsong puts the information construction of large-scale supermarkets and the information system of the particularly small supermarkets into c. class. Class A and Class C are regional brands that focus on the intensive internal work in foreign retail and local retail industry, respectively. Yang Qingsong is the director of the Information Department of China Chain Association. He has worked in a supermarket in Beijing. Hua Resources Wanjia's Xiong Jie believes that the information system integration and complexity comes from the standard of domestic supermarket information. "As described in the field description of some item, the five flowers. Some add value taxes, add the address. Building a house, the building industry should cover how many meters, the industry has a customary standard. Financial industry, manufacturing Similar standards. However, the retail industry has no reference standards, which leads to any demand, and it will be added to the inside. "Xiong Jie believes that the current level of retail information is low, the standard lack is the information system It is difficult to integrate. The deputy general manager of Beijing Beijing Beijing, the deputy general manager of Beijing, the difficulty of integration is deeply understood. Jingkelong is originally a state-owned enterprise, and later restructured is a limited liability company, officially changed to the Co., Ltd. on November 18. In the past few years, under the leadership of the government, Jingkelong completed the following cooperatives. The merger of government behavior is easy to integrate relative to commercial mergers. "If you use each home, do your interface, the sharing of data is difficult. Because any interface file can only be limited, you can't integrate all the data together, and it is difficult to share." Ji Jingsheng believes the similar system Integrated puzzle Jinglong began to meet, but fortunate now.
IT and business "supporting" puzzle domestic local supermarkets After the mergers, the scale is large, but the profitability is not improved. There is a supermarket in Guangzhou in Guangzhou, five of which are losses. The reason is much, but the expansion is too fast, the supply chain can not keep up, the store has low interest rates, and the management is not in place is an important reason. Yan Yanchun, the richestism, is a metaphor of this image: the current supermarket information system can do a store very well, but when you want to take 100, when you are a thousand stores, you can't connect into a line. This is like building a railway station built with 100,000 people, which is different for the requirements of the project. For the current supermarket informationization, the IT Director of a local supermarket is very helpless: IT departments belong to the support department in the company, and the IT department is "on call" for the company's requirements. The company wants to last new information projects, usually in the business unit, the finance department, and the operation department and others are sitting together "Dashan", each proposing his business requirements, and finally, "IT department you give me such a system. Come. "Usually, what is the need for business units, and add functions to the system. "The information system became a functionally stacked thing, not a riped operation system." The IT Director said that the business process should be the core problem of the company, there should be a high position of engineers. Specialized tubes, long-term accumulation explore a set of process processes that are suitable for enterprises and are accepted by the market. But now who has a need to add things, when the number of shops expands, the system is inevitable. Xiongjie has a similar view. China Resources Company has more than 100,000 kinds of products, and 50,000 items are doing promotions. "There are too many promotion modes, there is a discount, such as 95% off; there is a discount of money, such as cheap five points or a cents, etc. At the same time, there are Buy 100 to send 50, buy 100 get 30, etc. And there is a regulation in the first floor. Some provisions are limited in a certain type of product. Single promotion This function, the system is very pressure. "Xiong Jie believes that not only does not play the effect, but also information The burden of the system is too large. "In fact, we have more supermarkets than Wal-Mart. I went to visit their room, they used the old model, our new models were several times. But in the management system, Wal-Mart has already Shaped, and we are basically building a state. "Xiong Jie said. "The industry's expectation value is too high, or it is too low. What level is it? High to him, don't understand, I want to let the computer help him. This is a misunderstanding." Jinglong's high Deputy General Manager said. "If the process is determined, it is the responsibility of being the inexpensive use with IT. But if the decision makers don't know how to do it, IT staff will help him get the process." The other IT Director said. "In fact, IT staff has a very big confusion: buying tube is not good, the price is not good, or the replenishment is not accurate, or the inventory is not accurate, all hopes to manage it through IT, this expectation is too big." Ji Jingsheng It is considered to be more important than "circle", and more importantly, strengthen internal management, improve management, including its own training center, complete all process descriptions such as files, business operations, business processes, etc. Author: Yangxia Qing
Reprinted from: Blog China
