SCM: Uncovering The Advanced Stage Of Enterprise Information Management

In twenty-first Century, < p a > http://fz.sjfzxm.com/ > > market > /a > competition intensified. The competitiveness of modern enterprises gradually shifted from "product manufacturing promotion" to "user demand pull", that is, the final user's needs determine the direction of manufacturing and marketing operation of enterprises.

Enterprise information management has also shifted from focusing on the management of internal activities to the management of internal activities and interrelated activities between the upstream and downstream enterprises. The logistics supply chain management software came into being and gradually became the core of modern enterprise information management.

The degree of informationization of logistics supply chain management determines the fate of modern enterprises.

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< p > an enterprise should carry out information management construction. Its process should be expanded from internal management to external management and enterprise core business to the overall business of the enterprise. Generally speaking, the construction of enterprise informatization has the following five stages: < /p >

< p > in the first stage, in order to carry out the construction of information management, the core work of enterprises is mostly the construction of information infrastructure.

At this stage, on the one hand, enterprises should gradually change their own artificial management habits for many years to adapt to the management upgrading brought by information management. On the other hand, we must strive to build the necessary hardware and software facilities and platforms, including network hardware, operating systems and database software, and build an information infrastructure platform.

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P > second < a href= '"http://fz.sjfzxm.com/" > /a > is the information construction for the core Department of the enterprise.

Compared to the information solution for the whole enterprise, it is relatively easy to build information construction for only one or several core departments.

Although this kind of construction is easy to form information islands, it is not conducive to the interconnection and interoperability of enterprises, but also has adverse effects on the later integration. However, because most enterprises have limited investment in information management, they can only use "good steel in the blade".

Specifically, most enterprises start from departments such as planning, production, warehousing and other departments, and gradually establish an independent departmental application system, which can meet the business management needs of the Department in a short period of time, and then meet the minimum information management needs of enterprises.

However, due to the independent storage of data and the lack of necessary information exchange between businesses, the contradiction will inevitably emerge when the business needs to develop to a certain scale and the demand for communication between departments gradually increases.

For example, orders, plans and production can not be coordinated control, inventory can not be effectively reduced.

This leads to the third stages of enterprise informatization construction.

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< p > in the third stage, the information construction is focused on effective interconnection between the internal production activities of enterprises, that is, to remedy the second stage problems.

At this stage, ERP played the most important role.

Through the isomorphism construction of software and hardware platform, in order to achieve information sharing and collaborative operation among departments, and realize the management based on the internal scope of enterprises, the accurate analysis and setting of planned demand, safety stock, procurement lead time, procurement volume, acquisition method, purchase price, market behavior and suppliers will be carried out accurately, so that the informatization level of enterprises can be improved qualitatively, and the pre plan, control and post analysis can be carried out for enterprise management.

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< p > in the fourth stage, through the construction of modern logistics supply chain information system, it is necessary to promote the expansion of information management from internal to external and even the entire supply chain.

With the gradual expansion of the scope of opening up to the outside world, more and more enterprises have entered the embrace of the international market, and enterprises have expanded their production and circulation by expanding their business and adjusting their product structure.

The division of labor between enterprises is more detailed and cooperation is enhanced. Market competition is no longer confined to single enterprises, but between the enterprise group and the enterprise group, between the industrial chain and the industrial chain.

Under the traction of users' needs, a joint organization form is formed by vertical integration of several enterprises, and then these enterprises are linked into chains or networks through information technology, and the resources of each node in the chain are effectively integrated and interactive managed, so as to provide goods and services more effectively to the market function that a single enterprise can not undertake. In short, it is to build a modern supply chain information system.

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< p > the final stage is characterized by intelligent management.

Information management is no longer the helper of enterprise logistics supply chain and operation, but rising to the guidance level of enterprise strategy, truly realizing the ultimate goal of computer manager.

Of course, this level has yet to be covered.

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< p > < strong > supply chain management is the advanced stage of enterprise information management < /strong > < /p >

< p > supply chain management was first proposed in the late 1980s, while supply chain management informatization was a little late, but once launched, it was sought after by many large enterprises.

The reason why Shen Guokang, President of Boke information, said in an interview with the author, "comprehensive analysis shows that in a whole supply chain system of a commodity, the cost of non production has exceeded 80%.

Among them, the logistics cost of goods accounted for more than 40%, and time cost accounted for more than 90% of the entire supply chain.

It can be seen that in order to achieve the most obvious benefit income, the enterprises must have the informationization of logistics supply chain management after having considerable information level.

Using information technology throughout the logistics supply chain system is just like establishing a smooth highway between enterprises and suppliers, distributors and customers. It can reduce the time between each step and compress the time to zero.

It can not only reduce the inventory and liquidity of enterprises, but also improve the quick response ability of enterprises, which is conducive to enterprises to occupy a favorable position in the changeable market.

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< p > experts believe that the supply chain management informatization plans and optimizes the activities in the entire supply chain as a continuous, seamless process, rather than separating them from activities.

Through the information construction of supply chain management, enterprises conduct business restructuring and process reengineering according to the management needs. According to the idea of "user needs" and "process management", we pform the management idea, management mode, management method, management mechanism, management basis, business process, organization structure and management rules and regulations of the enterprise, optimize the key business process, and find out the "shortest piece of wood" on the supply chain according to the "barrel theory" and optimize it, so as to realize the upgrading of the entire supply chain and even the whole enterprise group competitiveness.

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< p > supply chain management information can upgrade the "department based" business approach to "process based" business mode. Through the design and control of logistics, information flow and capital flow, we first pform the relationship between the various departments within the enterprise into the upper and lower travel relationship of the supply chain, change the original business management thought and business process, shorten the single product production cycle according to the production process, increase the product quality control, improve the punctual delivery rate of products, shorten the product offline time and reduce the production cost on the basis of guaranteeing quality.

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< p > after integrating the information isolated islands within the enterprise, supply chain management information is integrated to integrate the information islands among the enterprise groups, forming an industrial chain of interest sharing, division of labor and closer ties.

Supply chain management informatization weakens the boundaries between enterprises, establishes a cross enterprise collaboration, rationally allocate resources, accelerates the flow of stock funds, and improves the efficiency and competitiveness of the entire industrial chain operation. The informationization of supply chain management belongs to the advanced stage of enterprise informatization development, and the extensive management mode of "big, complete, small and complete" enterprise will become the past.

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Jack P, CEO of the famous American business wizards and general electric company, once said that if an enterprise is not competitive in the supply chain operation of the logistics, simply do not compete. "Welch"

Lang Xianping, a famous economist in China, pointed out that the reality has shown that the logistics supply chain promotes the world, which is the general trend of twenty-first Century.

Today's competition is no longer dominated by the manufacturing industry. Supply chain competition has become the core content of modern enterprise competition. The real competition is not the competition between enterprises and enterprises, but the competition between supply chain and supply chain.

The degree of informationization of logistics supply chain management determines the fate of modern enterprises.

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