OA, ERP software, as currently the two major enterprise management, ERP related to logistics, production, finance and other corporate data processing and analysis, OA system is used for the paperless office, the work of the enterprise approval and knowledge management platform.
Include the use of ERP in enterprise distribution, manufacturing, finance three parts, procurement management, warehouse management, inventory control, production planning, distribution planning, shop floor control, quality management, payroll management, human resources, and nearly ten modules; enterprise management, office systems need to co OA, OA mainly related to document management, meeting management, records management, personnel management, customer information management, e-mail, electronic bulletin board and forum systems, modules, for business documents, files, data,assets and supplies management is also essential.Therefore, OA can not replace ERP, ERP can not be replaced by the same token OA.
However, in today's "knowledge management" as the core of the growing popularity of the new intelligent management system, OA, ERP, CRM and other systems one after another into the same time, many enterprises have to face such a major fact: these are mostly self-righteousness, their own wayoften the formation of information silos, integration effect can not be formed to help enterprises more efficient management decisions, the industry has been trying to explore: OA system and the ERP system is the existence of interface, integration issues, both to the full integration of collaborative, mutually reinforcing, that the user units to conserve resources and maximize effectiveness?
For example, more than a large group affiliated enterprises, large geographical distribution of complex, its biggest hope is that a large ERP system can function with OA, without having to buy another OA; while a SMEs, ERP huge investmentlong construction period, it hopes to buy a good OA Systems, OA ERP system also has some capabilities, to meet some of the basic time and attendance, payroll accounting and other data analysis, statistics, aggregate functions, without having to buy ERP.At least, on the ERP is also on the OA, OA corporate executives through an integrated query system can be as easy as reading EMAIL understand the ERP system, converting from aggregate data, declaration, right?Each other rather than fragmented fragmented, unable to call.
Launched in a while the OA, ERP system, enterprise, integration of the relevant loan reimbursement, it hope can be achieved through the OA system, the approval for the payment process, then the amount of written approval of the AP ERP modules, the formation of the relevant invoicedata, then the payment of operation; Another example is the integration of information about attendance, companies hope to achieve through the OA staff leave application approval process, approval after the passage of time and attendance information is written directly to the HR module of ERP in the attendance statistics, salary calculation; alsosuch as employee performance appraisal, businesses hope through the OA system, staff appraisal documents for approval, approval to write the results to the Human Resources ERP performance evaluation module for detailed personal information.
Similarly, the integration of a variety of products to achieve integration, to give products more functional ERP technology is an important direction.In Europe, ERP has continued to expand the scope of management trends, inclusive of all business enterprises themselves, the enterprise's business operations, enterprise collaborative commerce between business and so on.This, OA is also integrated into ERP systems, enterprise managers will be completed in the office all the business are integrated into the context of its management to achieve most of the work of enterprises and the related overall management of internal and external environment.
It is reported that "ERP + OA" caused by the integration of methods, including Microsoft, IBM, SAP and many other international software giants CIO concerns, and actively promoted.
However, we operate can be seen that some manufacturers because of OA has been too much emphasis on professional, dedicated professional, rather than extending to other areas of appropriate, so that the road gets narrower; Some ERP vendors also because too much emphasis on professionalism, obsession own data processing, analysisthe power, do not want the development to more advanced management process, which from time to time the market experienced a bottleneck.
Therefore, the two integrated business management software, collaborative OA, ERP integration software co-operation has become a trend, the future of enterprise management systems integrated collaborative management platform will step forward, a similar "portal technology" tight integration of business systems integrationmake the system a unified interface, process unification, unified account, data unified, OA, ERP and other systems in a variety of information, data management through an integrated portal in a strong support system to show up, in order to provide decision support, knowledge mining, businessintelligence and other integrated services.
In short, OA should be fully integrated with the ERP, not sexual immorality, can not become successful "two is not as" into "1 +1 <2", this is not the industry want.