ERPⅡ(Enterprise Resource Planning Ⅱ) is to create a business strategy between customer and shareholder and a set of specific-industry-oriented applications by supporting and optimizing financial processes and coordinate operation which occurs among the internal enterprise and between enterprises.
It was proposed by U.S. research and consulting firm Gartner Group in 2000 based on the original ERP.The main difference between ERP and ERPⅡ is the emphasis on the role of collaborative commerce. Here we describe the characteristics of ERPⅡ.
- ERPⅡ is not just the sales and purchase under e-business models, which was added into a new function of using corporate collaborative operation resources and information than simply inheriting the traditional ERP business process optimization.
- ERPⅡ has extended to non-manufacturing industries such as financial services, high-tech, telecommunications, retail so as to greatly expanded the scope of ERP implementation.
- ERPⅡ function was beyond the traditional manufacturing, distribution and financial backup to extend to those specific-industry-oriented business.
- ERPⅡ business process focuses on the development management of internal processes and external links.
- Compared with the monotonous structure of ERP system, ERPⅡ system structure is oriented to Web and integrated design, and it is also open and component-based.
- ERPⅡ can process the whole business data which is distributed in the entire business community while ERP system has to put the data in internal enterprise together before processing.
Under the e-commerce environment, fierce degree of market competition, the scope of market competition and the speed of customer needs and market changes, all of which have changed. ERP system will move in the direction toward integrated, networked, modular, intelligent, fast, efficient and customer-relationship-management-focused type.
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