Constructing Flexible Erp System, Based On The Business Model And Component Technology

Facing the ever changing market environment, more and more kinds of customer services, and intense competition, the enterprises are bothered by many questions such as how to satisfy the customers' needs from the product and service, reduces the production cost, carry on reorganization as well as enhance the ability of organization to response to quickly changed market environment. Business community and the academic circles are all positively exploring enterprise movement mechanism that fits for such situation. It is ERP system based on information technology the powerful tool that helps enterprises to win in competition nowadays. But along with the competition environment changes, the traditional ERP system exposes the difficulty to adapt to the ever changing environment. In order to solve the agile business management problem, flexible ERP system arises at the moment.Current research aims at flexible ERP are mainly carried on from two aspects, information technology and enterprise model. As to the information technology, it is mainly focus on the reusability of software since the software crisis in 1960s. As a result many technologies appear such as object-oriented technology, component, UML, CORBA and so on. The application of advanced information technology in ERP system causes the flexibility of ERP system to some extent. But such flexibility also has the limitation. It is mainly because it has not grasped the rule of enterprise's movement during the process of flexible ERP development. As to the enterprise model, it appeared many famous reference enterprise model systems structure such as CIM-OSA, ARIS and so on. But it is a pity that the enterprise model theory didn't obtain the widespread application all through, especially in the software development. Its main reason is that enterprise modeling theory can describe the enterprise clearly in every aspect, but the enterprise models cannot be applied in the software development directly. It is difficult to realize the transformation from enterprise model to the application system, and the research concerning this problem is also quite limited.