Research And Implementation Of Computer-Aided-Decision System In Small & Medium-Sized Foreign Trade Enterprise

With the trend of Globalization and Integration in our society, small & medium-sized enterprises have greater impact on market competition. How to make correct decisions on business survival and growth is particularly important. Although management information systems have relieved people from tedious transaction processing, it could not provide effective supports on decision-making. Fortunately, the emergency of decision support system creates the chance to scientific decision. However, it is not an easy work to implement DSS in small & medium-sized enterprise which is deficient in human, financial and material resources. Therefore, SMEs need Simple and practical computer-aided-decision program according to their own conditions.This paper firstly presents basic ideas of decision support system and some critical information technologies and methods. Then the obstacles to implementation of DSS are analyzed based on Small & medium-sized enterprise's actual situation. The decision problems in a foreign trade corporation are expounded. A framework of problem-driven decision support system combined with existing MIS is raised. The ways to solve the typical decision problems are discussed: 1,changing the method of packing from manual processing to automation based on approximate heuristic algorithm and adaptive genetic algorithm is put forward; 2,the model of supplier evaluation is built by the theory of Analytic Hierarchy Process; 3,an analysis of Multidimensional Performance is designed. Finally, some suggestions about SEM's Information Construction are invited.