Study Of Beijing Benz Automotive ERP Project Test Schedule

Beijing Benz Automotive Co., Ltd. is implementing ERP system which is basedon SAP system. This system is introduced to Beijing Benz through Germany DaimlerAG’s SAP overseas production template and project management methodology.It isthe first time for Daimler AG to deploy ERP project in joint venture. Theimplementation method is through release. There are2releases in May and Novembereach year. Each release includes new functional requirements of business units, newvehicle models kick off or the new plant kick off.During ERP system implementation, unit test, integration testing, localization,integration test, users acceptance test and regression test are required to ensure thefunction availability, system stability and integration of ERP systems.Beijing Benzdoes not have a systematical test schedule management method. It is a key issue forIT department on measuring the workload of test, figure out the milestone and thecritical path for the project.The purpose of this article is to take automobile manufacturing enterprise as theresearch object to analysze the issues in the of test schedule management. Improvemethod of the existing test progress by using new project testing schedulemanagement method. This article designed test milestones objects and test schedulepreparation and monitoring process.In order to prove the efficiency and performance of this article’s design. Onerelease of Beijing Benz ERP release was selected as an example to apply and test thenew method. The result of this test shows that this model brings the positive effect forthe product development. At the end of this article, it is concluded that the process ofthe new flow, the new method’s advantages, remaining problems and theimprovement in the future.