Banan District, located in Chongqing, Chongqing Changan Suzuki Automobile Co., Ltd., founded in June 1993, the Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd. (51%), Japan Suzuki Co., Ltd. (25%), Sojitz Corporation of Japan ( 14%), Suzuki (China) Investment Co., Ltd. (10%) holding the Quartet, the company registered capital of 190 million U.S. dollars, total investment of 555 million U.S. dollars. Covers an area of about 42 million square meters, more than 3,000 employees, with annual output of 200,000 complete vehicles and 200,000 engines annually.
The introduction of SOA on the process for more effective control
As a major vehicle manufacturers, a comprehensive and efficient process management is a key element of competitiveness. "An enterprise in addition to business-critical systems, there are processes, we encounter the problem is how to strengthen the flow control." Chongqing Changan Suzuki Automobile Co., Ltd., said Dong Bin, director of information systems.
Changan Suzuki launched a new product of any former, there are hundreds of parts in the production of the design process, hundreds of business sectors in parallel, if a department or a part of the business did not follow the time to complete the task, a component in the process problems, will influence the market, therefore, effective control of the process is very important.
"Our goal is to solve the whole company level in the process 管理, process management system can Zhi Jie Zai Liu Cheng's Key Nodes point data directly and generate Jiao Hu Ying Yong system to address sexual and Buyi Zhi data Chulijishi." Dong Bin said.
"Many companies may be using OA to solve this problem, but we found gap between sectors is very easy, and it is not enough flexibility in the process. The original process may be fragments, not automatically trigger the related process. For example, in prices before Caigoubumen business related Guo Cheng Gong Ying Yao right to control the flow Anzhaoyuanyou Di, Zhi You price Juedinghouzai Zai system in Shuru also Jiushishiji the price Shuju not Zhijietongguo process written application systems. "
In order to better address the flexibility of workflow management in a lack of problems, in October 2007 the introduction of SOA, Changan Suzuki to improve process management.
The implementation of SOA is not to abandon their existing management systems
Chang'an Suzuki attaches great importance to information technology, many years ago on the implementation of the ERP, supply chain management system, after the introduction of SOA, Changan Suzuki will be the original system is out of business? Dong Bin, said the introduction of SOA, not abandon the original systems and models, but more is to apply SOA architecture concept of the system can be redefined and combined to better optimize the company's management processes.
Decision-makers as one of the introduction of SOA architecture, Changan Suzuki, Dong Bin, director of information systems admits the process of selection more complicated, "(SOA), after all, is a new concept and a new system service model," In the end, Changan Suzuki chose IBM solution.
Dong Bin, said many companies before making the decision come into contact with, understand the different solutions and did some test cases. Chang'an Suzuki presented its own characteristics for the application requirements, compare the company's SOA realization, and then on the services and prices before making a final comprehensive reference choice.
After the introduction of SOA is service specific implementation. "Changan Suzuki of the SOA first in October 2008 is expected to be on the line," Dong Bin joked his side to learn the implementation side, "SOA is a new idea, really put into use or the need to process, not as simple as building block 。”他说，一方面，因为涉及到公司级流程，关系到各个部门的工作方式以及管理流程，需对企业的应用需求进行重新梳理和优化;而另一方面，SOA是个新的构架和理念，包括开发人员在内，学习使用和进行实际开发都有一个过程。
希冀有更多SOA企业案例供参考
谈到SOA落地实施，董斌认为SOA能够更好的支持企业未来的业务发展方向，使IT构架更好满足业务需求。当前的企业都面临激烈竞争，很多业务需要一个比较容易调整或重新定义的系统来支持，SOA的构架符合未来管理发展的要求，能够使IT系统更好的实现企业新业务发展、调整。
而未来SOA系统应该是各种服务模块的标准化，实施层面看到的只是一个个设计开发好的应用模块，企业只是如何组合起来，并部署到自己的流程管理中。“但该前提是各个应用系统软件的都是按照SOA架构标准开发的，用户拿到后就很容易实现流程的重新定义。” 董斌表示，“甚至可以封装制作某一个行业的SOA应用模块，比如针对我们制造行业的”。
同时他也谈到，各个厂家的SOA解决方案在实施中都会遇到问题，企业难免有各种担心，希望可以借鉴到更多的SOA企业实施案例。“虽然媒体对SOA宣传的很多，但是SOA服务商对SOA落地推动却比较少。我们在实施中也担心会不会有风险，也希望可以参考到实际典型的应用案例，这样使企业看到SOA实施后的效果，也能够让用户真正体会到SOA的好处。”