Research on group-oriented enterprises resource planning: A solution to multiregional, heterogeneous and distributed group enterprises application

Recently, in China, there is a tendency that many iron and steel enterprises incorporate into enterprises groups because of competitive pressure. In order to satisfy the demand of iron and steel enterprises group on group-oriented management pattern and to resolve the difficulties in management, control and scheduling on global resources and every enterprise incorporated. This paper proposes Group-oriented Enterprises Resource Planning (G-ERP) solution by reengineering the business process of iron & steel group enterprises. G-ERP can make the integration and sharing on data, information and collaboration on business process of group domain, and can optimize the production and management of group enterprises under the multiregional, heterogeneous and distributed environment. The detailed design including hierarchy framework, system architecture and module interaction of G-ERP is represented. Finally, the implementation in an iron & steel enterprises group of China is presented in detail.