Application Of Erp In The Medium-sized Machinery Manufacturing Enterprises

After China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), the economy globalization is bringing about unlimited business opportunities to enterprises, especially manufacturing industry, and increasingly high pressures on the production and manufacturing management of companies. Enterprises must adopt advanced management information system and shrink their difference on management with foreign enterprises. Only in this way can companies maintain their competitiveness.Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) is the advanced theory of management in the world. ERP provides the best solution of integration information. It adequately takes into account and balances the resources of manpower, capital, materials, equipments, technology, information and time, reinforcing the integral management process in the areas of manpower, capital, materials, production, supply and sales, making more profit for enterprises by utilizing limited resources.This paper introduces the development process of ERP, from MRP, MRPII to ERP, introducing the principle and business process of primary modules. There is a detailed description about how to select ERP system software and how to implement it. With the example of Dalian Diesel factory of FAW, the important and difficult problems of ERP implementation, for instance, Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and personalized customization, are introduced in detail at the angle of user. This is very useful, referenced value to the implementing ERP system's enterprises.