March 27, 2011
of enterprise information through the IC (InventoryControl), MRP, MRPII, ERP, ERPII five stages; trace today domestic history of the evolution of management thought processes, can be simply divided into process improvement (BusinessProcessImprovement, BPI) (ThomasDavenport, 1990), process reengineering (BusinessProcessReengineering, BPR) (MichaelHammer, 1993), process management (BusinessProcessManagement, BPM) (Elzinga, 1995) and process management (BusinessProcessGovernance, BPG) (IBM, 2009 ) four stages.
In fact, processes, activities, operations and processes such as might be synonymous substitution, therefore, process management has a long history. The process under conditions of informatization management is particularly important, “the real power is not the technology to make existing workflow function better, not to make the original workflow automation, encourage enterprises to do in the past but can not do , not a do or do not work “(MichaelHammer, 1998). There are processes in ERP, BPM in some processes, what is the relationship between the two, what is the difference?
process technology and process the application classification categories correspond
clear classification of the process technology and process applications, the correspondence between the classification, we can figure out BPM and ERP in the process of the similarities and differences. Process management and process management technology is a one to one, in essence, the technology is an abstract method, the method is technology specific.
see from Table 1, with the application of information technology continues to expand the breadth and depth, business process integration and information technology and ever-rising; information technology led to the growing business process reconstruction and counter-productive in information technology integration; cross-organizational information flow in large numbers; e-business processes into an inevitable trend. Process management analysis from the theoretical level, the old technology should continue to be replaced resulting in the demise of new technologies; However, in practice, the performance is not the case, due to the complexity of organizational processes, inheritance (legacyprocess), process technology, cost, a continuation of the process technology and process technology vendors of the market strategy and other factors together, leading from the application level analysis, the process can be divided into three categories, Table 1, most of the process technology is still used by these processes, which, as shown in Table 1 process technology can be divided into three categories; the correspondence shown in Table 2.
Thus, changes in technology, process management, process technology has led to the classification and the classification of the application process, which IERP is ERP internal process, OERP is ERP external process. The BPM of the two types of processes can be managed, but because IERP OERP processes with different processes and process the application characteristics, and thus, as shown in Table 2 were suitable for different process management technology to manage it.
under prevailing in today BPM, ERP is not only not dead, will continue to move forward; process-based management theory and practice to achieve success, will be to promote the continued development of an emerging ERP . From the development trend, IERP processes and OERP process eventually will be integrated in SOA (ServiceOrientedArchitecture) framework, to the POA (ProcessOrientedArchitecture) architecture forward.