Enterprises Must Read: Application Status Of ERP In Small And Medium Enterprises

The application of ERP in China is quite different from that in developed countries. Although nearly 1000 enterprises have purchased MRPII/ERP software, there are three situations in practice: the enterprises that implement the system integration on the basis of the scheduled implementation of the budget account for about 10%-20%; some enterprises that realize the function of ERP software account for 30%-40%, while the proportion of failure accounts for 50%, and most of the successful enterprises are foreign enterprises. Overall implementation ERP The vast majority of Chinese enterprises are not very effective and pay a heavy price.

(1) the degree of informatization is relatively low or the cost is relatively high, and the implementation of ERP is restricted.

At present, small and medium-sized enterprises in China generally have low information level, which makes the premise and auxiliary environment of ERP implementation and application limited. In terms of network applications, less than half of the small and medium-sized enterprises have access to the Internet, the eastern coastal areas are slightly better. However, there are two reasons why some enterprises are far away from the ERP application. One is that the scale of the enterprises is relatively small, and the cash flow and logistics are more economical through manual operation. The second is that the low professional level of the personnel, even if the cost is higher, can still be used to purchase ERP. In addition, some circulation enterprises, such as trade companies and wholesale enterprises, though network It is widely applied and technically satisfies the technical level of using ERP. However, it is still not considered that ERP application is a reasonable choice for the current enterprise scale, and it is not economical to choose ERP on the scale of the enterprise. In the area of LAN construction, there is a large number of enterprises without internal LAN and database. According to the survey of relevant scholars, the proportion may reach 42.4%. The informatization level of these enterprises is relatively low, and the application of ERP is restricted at the technical level.

(two) there are misunderstandings in ERP's understanding or at the basic level.

At present, many small and medium-sized enterprises have misunderstandings about the application of ERP. Some small and medium-sized enterprises with confused management and low management efficiency believe that ERP application is a good medicine to improve the management of enterprises. Managers who have the above knowledge ignore the correlation between things, such as internal Stock The method or the situation of monitoring the White Thief and the lack of relevant professional personnel, using ERP only after the improvement of tools, can restrain the illegal activities through informationization, but often fails to give full play to the important functions of ERP itself, such as reducing the cost of human resources, improving the efficiency of inventory management, and making inventory demand prediction. A certain proportion of small and medium-sized enterprises, though recognizing the informatization and implementing ERP, are the future trends. For example, "ERP is death, not ERP is death," but it is confusing information and ERP application, or even considering the development of the enterprise itself, nor does it consider the practicability of the software, that is, the purchase of the software, or even the panic that the whole staff is preparing for ERP application, ultimately leads to the failure of the attempt. Management confusion shows that enterprises can not make use of reasonable inventory management. On the understanding of ERP function, some SMEs think that ERP is a more expensive financial software, ERP Software The function is limited to financial management, or fails to give full play to the function of ERP, so that it can be limited to MRP or MRPII stage.

(three) the lack of software matches the characteristics of the industry and enterprises.

The situation is relatively high, but the ERP software used by small and medium-sized enterprises applying ERP is not mature. There are problems in software development companies. For example, some functions of UFIDA ERP are not compatible with each other, and it is difficult to adapt to the change of customers' needs because of some poor functions. It is difficult for small and medium-sized enterprises to buy "fit" ERP software. From the functional point of view, software vendors expect to solve all kinds of problems of enterprises by simple software parameters, which is impossible. At present, only a large part of financial software can achieve the unification of enterprises and industries. From the software debugging cycle, the average debugging period of ERP software in China's SMEs is 18-31 months, so the long debugging process has approached or exceeded the production cycle of the software. At present, China's ERP software products have broken the monopoly and cost of foreign enterprises. In addition, the applicability of the software is also poor, such as the system can not provide multi currency, multi lingual management mode, each module split up, the overall function can not be reflected at all.