Integrated enterprise management system to move collaborative management platform has become the current trend of information technology companies. Externally, corporate websites and e-commerce system in a similar "portal" approach, tightly integrated business system integration, unified interface makes the system, process unification, unified account, data unification; internally, OA, ERP system various modules, the process has become a management support system, providing decision support, knowledge mining, business intelligence and other integrated services.
ERP system is involved in logistics, manufacturing, financial and other corporate data processing and analysis, OA system is used for paperless office, the work of the enterprise approval and knowledge management platform. OA, ERP business management as the two existing software systems, should be duties, their duties, but in the actual selection and application process, they often appear so, that kind of problem, so both In the enterprise market, disputes management system continuously.
Who is who can replace the ERP OA
In some medium and large enterprises, enterprise wide business scope, distribution complex, its biggest hope is that a set of on-line ERP system and set of ERP functions to have OA, but not need to separately purchase of OA system; while a small enterprises, ERP huge investment, long construction period, it hopes to buy OA is a good system, and the OA system also needs to have part of the ERP characteristics of function, such as to meet the wage calculation, data analysis, statistics, summary function.
From this point of view of the above, seem to imply that ERP in medium and large enterprises of information technology applications gain the upper hand, while OA is the application of information technology for small businesses to win. However, ERP and OA from the perspective of analyzing the functions of the two, would come to another conclusion.
ERP application in the enterprise include distribution, manufacturing, finance three parts, procurement management, warehouse management, inventory control, production planning, distribution plan, shop floor control, quality management, payroll management, human resources, and nearly 10 modules ; enterprise management, office systems also require a concerted OA, OA mainly related to document management, conference management, records management, personnel management, customer information management, e-mail, electronic bulletin board and forum systems, modules, for business documents, files, data, assets, supplies management is also essential.
Therefore, OA can not replace the ERP, ERP can not be replaced by the same token OA.
However, in today's "knowledge management" as the core of a new intelligent management system of the increasing popularity, many companies have introduced OA, ERP, HRM, CRM and other systems, but also face the fact: these are mostly self-righteousness, their own way, often the formation of islands of information. OA system and in particular, ERP, they function, the issue seems far from integrated, can not achieve mutual communication and cooperation.
How to make the integration of collaboration between each other for that user unit to save resources for maximum effectiveness?
Launched in a while the OA, ERP system, enterprise, features in the integration of the loan reimbursement, it will want to first pass the OA system, the payment process to achieve approval, then the amount of written approval of ERP financial modules, the formation of related invoice data, and then to pay the operation; Another example is the integration of information about attendance, enterprises want to achieve through the OA staff leave application approval process, approval after the passage of time and attendance information is written directly to the ERP in the human resources module attendance statistics, salary calculation ; also as the performance appraisal of the integration, enterprises also hope that through the OA system for staff appraisal documents for approval, approval of the results written ERP in the human resources 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 and the United States, ERP management has continued to expand the scope of the trend, embracing all its business enterprises, business office operations, business synergies between the business and so on. This, OA is also integrated into ERP systems, enterprise managers in the office to complete the whole business into its management within the enterprise to achieve most of the work and the related overall management of internal and external environment.
Let OA ERP can have once
The main features from the OA system, one of the important features of the workflow is one of the powerful customization features, and can provide a more flexible graphical customization tool that can adapt to various forms of corporate approval form, process needs.
In contrast, ERP system implementation is the workflow more business logic data flow, it does not focus on the administrative structure of the approval, therefore can not escape for many domestic enterprises, the structure of administrative examination and approval, ERP systems becomes slightly worse in this regard.
But at the same time, ERP systems to solve its core is a huge business data within the enterprise logic of the system, which runs through the production and management of full life cycle, from beginning to end to form a complete business relationship data link. Therefore, it is a powerful system of its own complex relationship between logical data, can really provide enterprises with a targeted solution.
With the construction of information, a variety of different functions, have focused on different business systems within the enterprise to establish their own "status", while the integration between business systems and integration issues, has become a hot topic of discussion among a large number of high-level discussions. Then the OA system for such a strong foundation systems, and that the enterprise ERP system within the value chain than in the enterprise information in the possession of what kind of role should be to integrate it with ERP systems with each other?
OA system in the enterprise information system in general play a "foundation" role, to achieve the basic business office functions, such as approval workflow, daily office management, it is usually known as the enterprise information construction of foundation engineering . ERP modules, in different business areas within the enterprise in the occupied its own place, which focuses on enterprise business data processing, analysis and mining.
Since the OA system and the focus of ERP is not the same as each other, then it means complete isolation between the two can do, in practice many companies find, OA and ERP have different strengths between the individual, if the two can together to achieve proper integration, you can compensate each other to achieve the best overall efficiency.
Between OA and ERP, therefore, can build a bridge to achieve a two-way communication and conversation, so that the data within the enterprise, "smooth."
ERP system and OA system on the interpretation of
Enterprise Resource Planning ERP fact, the English abbreviation, different developers have different design ideas, different users have different needs, the general use of ERP in enterprises include distribution, manufacturing, finance three parts, the ERP system is MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning) and extension, more accurately, MRPII ERP is the core. At present more of a concept product, such as financial software, with imports and sales, deposit becomes ERP. In theory, ERP modules may be involved include: forecasting, order management, sales analysis, purchasing management, warehouse management, inventory control, production planning (MPS), product data management (PDM), material requirements planning, capacity requirements planning (CRP ), distribution requirements planning (DRP), shop floor control (SFC), process operations management, quality management, payroll management, human resources and so nearly 10 modules. From this perspective, ERP and OA are essential differences, ERP tend to business management.
Office Automation System of Office required (OA), because the process of business management is not just the production operations management, for business documents, files, data, assets, management of supplies, etc. is also essential. At present, many companies need office document management system is mainly, conference management, records management, personnel management, management of customer information, e-mail, electronic bulletin board and forum systems, these applications are all the surface areas of the traditional office automation, but in fact in the OA system is running on these documents, data, ERP systems also provide a data base, while OA system with ERP systems do not have the function of the administrative approval process. Thus, both in practical application are two entirely different platform, they co-exist between a complementary relationship.