Chapter 4 Preamble 3 Information has no boundaries, and development is infinite

The extent of expansion of an enterprise depends on the investment capabilities of people, money, and materials, and the quality of operation of an enterprise depends on the management capabilities of people, money, and materials.In today's society, the strength of enterprise management capabilities depends largely on the breadth and depth of informatization extension. As long as there are no information blind spots, there will be no management blind spots, and there will be no development limitations. The retail industry, especially the modern chain retail, has an invisible production line within the enterprise, which is the information flow through procurement, inventory, sales, finance, personnel and after-sales service.As the scale of the enterprise expands and the level of informatization improves, this internal information flow will also extend to both ends, forming a B2B (business to business) procurement supply chain with suppliers and a B2C (business to customer) supply chain with consumers. Sales service chain.Without informatization, there would be no modern transformation of retail enterprises, let alone large-scale chain operations.

After more than ten years of development, the information development of Chinese retail enterprises has generally reached the application stage of business management information systems.But for the application of higher-stage enterprise resource management system, that is, ERP system, many enterprises are still hesitant.The reason is that people's understanding of information construction and the implementation of ERP systems have some fears of being misled. For example, some people think that enterprises "are waiting for death if they don't use ERP, and they are courting death if they use ERP".If the ERP system is dead whether it is up or not, then it is definitely better to die early than to die late, and it is better not to be up.In fact, "If you don't go to ERP, you are waiting for death" is possible, but "you are going to die if you go to ERP" is not necessarily the case.Going to ERP does require investing money, time and energy, and the process of going to ERP is not easy, and you need to keep optimizing after you go to ERP.But after using ERP, the operation of the enterprise has risen from process and process control to resource and plan management, which is a qualitative leap.For another example, some people think that "ERP is a project of the top leader, and it can be done with the support of the top leader, but it cannot be done without the support of the top leader."In fact, if the top leader does not support it, ERP will definitely not be able to be done; if the top leader supports it, ERP may not be able to be done.After all, the implementation of an ERP system is a creative and professional project, and it is necessary to formulate an overall blueprint and phased implementation goals based on the needs of the enterprise and the status of the enterprise.Judging from Suning's informatization experience, for all retail companies that are interested in becoming bigger, stronger, better and longer, ERP should be an inevitable choice for large-scale development of enterprises.If you go to ERP, you decide your own development. If you don't go to ERP, others decide your life.Once you feel the need to go to ERP, it is better to go to ERP at night than in the morning, and it is better to go slowly than to go fast.

How high a kite can fly in the sky depends on how long the string that controls the kite is.The stable development space of an enterprise depends on the boundary that management control can reach, and the boundary of enterprise management control is the boundary of informatization.Unbounded information, controllable operation, orderly management and unlimited development.