What is ERP?

Though enterprise resource planning (ERP) has gained some prominence in the information systems (IS) literature over the past few years and is a significant phenomenon in practice, through (a) historical analysis, (b) meta-analysis of representative IS literature, and (c) a survey of academic experts, we reveal dissenting views on the phenomenon. Given this diversity of perspectives, it is unlikely that at this stage a broadly agreed definition of ERP can be achieved. We thus seek to increase awareness of the issues and stimulate further discussion, with the ultimate aim being to: (1) aid communication amongst researchers and between researchers and practitioners; (2) inform development of teaching materials on ERP and related concepts in university curricula and in commercial education and training; and (3) aid communication amongst clients, consultants and vendors. Increased transparency of the ERP-concept within IS may also benefit other aligned fields of knowledge.     

天津石化分公司生产经营综合分析系统建设与应用

结合企业多个信息系统存在的现状,研究适合企业的系统功能架构. 利用经营分析平台,深度挖掘价值数据. 介绍了经济活动分析会材料自动生成、生产经营完成情况、领导分析与决策、原料加工和库存、产品产量与销售、设备维护与物资管理等功能界面. 目前系统已成功上线运行,具有示范作用.     

采用数据仓库和决策支持技术开发企业资源计划（ERP）系统

本文针对某厂的现实情况,论述了对该厂MIS系统进行重构和提升的必要性,提出了流程性ERP管理模式的要点,推荐了开发Internet/Intranet网上ERP系统的软件平台及配套工具。     

基于协同ERP的GDSS协同系统设计研究

首先简要分析了ERP软件的研究发展现状,定义了协同商务ERP概念模式,该模式集成GDSS;其次,依据协同ERP概念模式,提出基于协同ERP的多智能Agents GDSS协同系统设计方案;最后,研究了此设计方案的多媒体多智能Agent系统功能体系结构。     

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: The Role of Learning from Failure

ERP implementations remain problematic despite the fact that many of the issues are by now quite well known. In this paper, we take a different perspective from the critical success factors and risks approaches that are common in the information systems discipline to explain why ERP implementations fail. Specifically, we adapt Sitkin's theory of intelligent failure to ERP implementations resulting in a theory that we call learning from failure. We then examine from the viewpoint of this theory the details of two SAP R/3 implementations, one of which failed while the other succeeded. Although it is impossible to state, unequivocally, that the implementation that failed did so because it did not use the approach that was derived from the theory, the analysis reveals that the company that followed many of the tenets of the theory succeeded while the other did not.     

企业信息化的核心ERP

企业信息化的核心ERP是企业获得持续竞争优势的重要手段,这是一个内涵和外延都相当丰富的概念,蕴含着众多的管理思想和信息技术运用成果,是有史以来最复杂的信息管理系统,其功能覆盖了企业运营和管理的方方面面。ERP系统的实施,将改变公司的生产经营管理模式,全面提升经营管理效率和管理水平。重点阐述什么是ERP,能给企业带来什么,又怎样实施ERP？。     

行业版ERP软件研发中的计划管理方法

把MRP的理念引入到基于系统化软件复用的行业版ERP软件研发的计划管理领域中。对有形产品与ERP软件产晶的相似性和差异性进行了分析,研究了在行业版ERP软件研发中引入MRP方法的可行性,提出了一种MRP和GT相结合的、针对行业版ERP软件研发中计划管理的解决方案。     

基于石油行业某销售公司的ERP系统实施

该文详细介绍了石油行业某销售公司ERP系统结构和系统模块功能,阐述了ERP系统业务流程,分析了ERP系统成功实施的关键因素,为企业ERP系统的成功实施提供了有利支持.     

Local Area Management and Planning (LAMP) in India

To assist decentralised planning, the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India has taken the initiative to develop a computer-based spatial information system for planning and management of the natural resources at the district and sub-district level. At present ten district level database centres called Natural Resources Data Management System (NRDMS) have been functioning in different geo-environments in India.
The present paper discusses the experience of the Centre for Applied Systems Analysis in Development (CASAD). CASAD is involved in managing the NRDMS database centre at Bankura district and was associated with the development of DSS models in Kheda district. Finally, a few case studies on the use of Decision Support Systems (DSS) for decentralised decision making at the district level are discussed.     

基于IRP的企业信息化工程整体解决方案的设计

为解决当前企业信息化建设中“信息资源整合与共享问题”,提出了一种基于IRP的企业信息化工程整体解决方案。介绍了信息资源规划的相关知识,分析了IRP与ERP之间的区别,采用信息资源规划方法,提出了一整套由“方法论＋标准规范＋支持工具”组成的技术体系解决方案,从而减少企业内部信息交流和沟通的中间环节,加快部门信息传递速度,提高了企业内部计算机应用水平,促进了企业现代化管理水平的提高,增强了企业的市场竞争能力。     

基于IRP的企业信息化工程整体解决方案的设计

为解决当前企业信息化建设中"信息资源整合与共享问题",提出了一种基于IRP的企业信息化工程整体解决方案.介绍了信息资源规划的相关知识,分析了IRP与ERP之间的区别,采用信息资源规划方法,提出了一整套由"方法论 标准规范 支持工具"组成的技术体系解决方案,从而减少企业内部信息交流和沟通的中间环节,加快部门信息传递速度,提高了企业内部计算机应用水平,促进了企业现代化管理水平的提高,增强了企业的市场竞争能力.     

实现虚拟企业的需求分析

在全球市场激烈竞争的压力下,制造业正寻求构成短期合作伙伴或联盟－虚拟企业,以致力于快速变化的商机,这种新的协同形式需要突破传统系统的局限,重构业务流程,通过稳妥可行的步骤,采用适当的服务,并运行于信息基础结构框架和结构之上。     

The Impact of Top Management Commitment, Business Process Redesign, and IT Planning on the Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce Site

Managers and researchers would benefit from an understanding of the organizational practices that result in more featured e-commerce sites and of the particular features that contribute to firm performance. In a Web-based survey of 458 business-to-consumer e-commerce managers, CEO commitment and planning resulted in more featured sites whereas business process redesign did not. Four features, namely publishing applications, catalog applications, interactivity, and interfaces, predicted firm performance at a statistically significant level, while transaction applications and server performance did not. The research contributes by demonstrating the general importance of the organizational practices and site features, while raising questions about business process redesign, transaction applications, and server performance.     

Building an E-Business from Enterprise Systems

Building their companies into successful e-businesses has become an important objective for today's enterprises. Conceptually, it embodies the enabling of the business with such capabilities as global networking, streamlining business processes, sharing information, agility in responding to the market, and intelligent decision making. But how can these concepts be implemented in actual enterprises? Why do these desirable attributes of business systems suddenly become the definition of competency of companies large and small? This paper describes the framework for building an e-business from the enterprise information systems' perspective. Increasingly enterprise systems have extended beyond the traditional business functions and include such new features as supply-chain management, customer relationship management and electronic commerce. The shifting focus is driven by the adoption of the Web as a new channel for product distribution, marketing, and interacting with customers. The integration of the traditional as well as the Web-oriented functions is the cornerstone for a successful e-business. This paper presents a framework for e-businesses that on one hand build on the enterprise systems but on the other hand encompasses the new e-business dimensions.     

浅谈企业信息化管理

企业科技管理工作中,信息化管理占有很大比重。该文主要阐述了企业信息化管理的意义及管理中存在的问题,并针对问题提出相应的解决方案。     

企业管理信息系统建立过程中问题的探讨

列举了当今国内企业在建立管理信息系统时 ,可能遇到的种种问题 ,指出了当前企业在建立管理信息系统过程中出现的信息管理向知识管理过渡的发展趋势 ,并提出了建立企业管理信息系统要以企业的切实需求为动力 ,以提高企业竞争力为目的 ,以市场信息为龙头的企业信息化战略方针     

The functions of a decision support system

The growing literature on decision support systems outlines their principal characteristics and presents case studies of successful systems. This paper reviews the literature, describes six functions that a decision support system may perform for a manager or staff analyst, and introduces a new technique, functional mapping, for representing these systems.     

Observations of a firm's information processing with a data base management system

The organization in this study used all versions of IMS, from IMS 1 through IMS VS 1.01, over the period 1970–1975. During this period, the number of messages processed steadily increased from 6000 in October 1970 to a maximum in excess of 150,000 in September 1974. This volume enhancement was achieved by solving a sequence of problems concerning IMS software, data base design, or program coding. Perhaps the most important factors supporting the increase were two improvements in IMS software: one was the data base buffer pool introduced with IMS 2; the other the feature introduced with IMS VS that, unlike the previous versions, enabled the simultaneous updating of different data base segments belonging to the same type.     

Enterprise Modeling and Decision-Support for Automating the Business Rules Lifecycle

Business rules represent policies, procedures and constraints regarding how an enterprise conducts its business. To get the full benefits of modeling business rules requires an approach to managing them through their full lifecycle, from acquisition through deployment and evolution. The research reported in this paper is aimed at determining what infrastructure capabilities are needed to provide this lifecycle support. The solution embodies a modeling framework that captures the structure of the enterprise, in terms of which the business rules can be expressed, and decision-support capabilities for reasoning about and deriving business rules. The paper demonstrates the possibility of automatic support of the business rules lifecycle by automatically generating business rules from the captured information, along with data representing domain assumptions in a case study (the London Ambulance System). A system was implemented to illustrate the methodology and to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach. The methodology also gives guidance on how to deal with pragmatically important situations such as rules that involve both automated and human tasks, nondeterministic rules, and goal-oriented versus operational rules.