How to Solve the Problem of Hardware Enterprise Informatization in Electronic Commerce

I. Informatization, Regeneration of Traditional Enterprises

(1) Enterprise Informatization

Enterprise informatization refers to the process of collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting enterprise information through the extensive use of information technology, communication technology, and management technology in all aspects of the enterprise's production and management.

In essence, enterprise informatization is the application of information technology to reconstruct the company's core business processes, strengthen enterprise operations control, and then improve the company's competitiveness.

The main lines of foreign enterprise information development are MRP, MRPII, ERP systems, and from the 70s MRP, the 80s MRPII to the 1990s ERP, and the 21st century collaborative commerce has experienced more than 40 years of development, which incorporates SCM, CRM, etc. The ERP system of supply chain management condenses the essence of forty years of business management ideas and modern management methods.

Comparing the history of ERP development abroad, we can see that today's enterprise informatization in China must strengthen the construction of “four modernizations” including the digitization of basic management, integration of business processes, knowledge of employees’ skills, and intelligence of business decisions. Therefore, the process of enterprise informationization in China is also the process of using modern management technology to transform the enterprise management model, and on this basis, the implementation of e-commerce, which is also the final way out of enterprise information.

(II) Analysis of the overall level of enterprise informatization in China

Recently, with China's formal accession to the WTO, how to improve the competitiveness of domestic enterprises has become the focus of attention of all parties. Many companies have realized that choosing information is the only way to go. In general, however, the vast majority of enterprises in China are still lagging behind in their level of informatization, and corporate e-commerce is making slow progress. It can be summarized as "We have 21st century networks, 90s software, but only 80s applications, 70s management."

The specific problems are mainly manifested in:

1. There are very few companies that use the Internet to conduct business activities. From the above data, we can see that only 20% to 30% of enterprises achieve online access. Even in this part of the company, the majority of the work done is only to open the home page and E-mail address on the Internet, neither fully utilize the network resources, nor use the network to carry out business activities. Some corporate websites do not update information for a long time and become empty stations. In contrast, in the United States, 60% of small businesses, 80% of medium-sized companies, and more than 90% of large companies have conducted extensive business activities through the Internet.

2. The cost of enterprise information construction is high. At this stage, China's IT vendors mainly provide PCs, monitors, terminals, and other products; they can provide enterprises with advice from pre-sales, to provide easy-to-implement, modular programs, and then to the implementation of the program until after-sales operation and maintenance. There are few IT companies that can provide one-stop service. This is an important reason for the high cost of enterprise information, long construction period, and difficulty in maintenance and coordination in the later period.

3. The progress of e-commerce in enterprises is slow. In recent years, the rapid development of global e-commerce, in 2003, is expected to reach 3,200 billion US dollars, accounting for 5% of the world's total economy. However, due to the immature market economy in China, the spot market and tangible market are still incomplete, corporate credit is poor, funds are in shortfall, and lack of supporting information systems, logistics systems, payment systems, and institutional guarantees, resulting in the development of electronics for most companies. Business is not positive.

Second, e-commerce, the last stop of informatization

E-commerce originated from English ELECTRONICCOMMERCE, abbreviated as EC. As its name suggests, its content includes two aspects, one is electronic means, and the other is business activities. E-commerce refers to the use of simple, fast, low-cost electronic communication methods, where buyers and sellers conduct various business activities without looking at each other.

E-commerce on the Internet can be divided into three areas: information services, transactions, and payments. The main contents include: electronic commercial advertising; electronic purchasing and trading, exchange of electronic transaction certificates; electronic payment and settlement and after-sales online services. There are four types of entities involved in e-commerce: customers (individual consumers or corporate groups), merchants (including vendors, manufacturers, storage and transportation companies), banks (including issuing banks, acquiring banks), and certification centers.

E-commerce is a direct result of the explosive development of the Internet, and it is a new development direction of network technology applications. The open, global, low-cost, and high-efficiency nature of the Internet itself has also become an intrinsic feature of e-commerce, and it has made e-commerce greatly surpass the value it has as a new form of trade, and it will not only change The production, management and management activities of the enterprise itself will also affect the economic operation and structure of the entire society.

III. Typical Cases: Injecting New Power into Informatization Sands Creates the Largest Hardware Base in China

Jinsha Town, located in Nanhai District of Foshan City, was once a little-known town. In recent years, the town's hardware industry has gradually formed an industrial cluster and has gained fame at home and abroad. In particular, the use of information network technology to transform and upgrade the traditional hardware industry, Jinsha Town is even more fully played.

After entering the 90s of last century, Jinsha Town’s hardware industry has taken a leap due to the support of the Jinsha Town government for private enterprises.

At the end of the last century, facing the challenges and opportunities brought by China's accession to the WTO and the sudden emergence of the hardware industry in other parts of the country, Jinsha Town established a development strategy of “informatization to promote industrial modernization”.

The town relies on modern information network technology to integrate various resources, establish industrial technology innovation service system and implement industrial technology innovation, which injects new impetus into the development of the hardware industry.

Hardware intellectual property service centers and other non-profit technology innovation intermediary service agencies, and the Guangdong Hardware Technology Innovation Center as the core, integrating the resources of various agencies to form a resource sharing technology innovation platform. Jinsha Town makes full use of information network technology to effectively transform and upgrade the entire traditional hardware industry.

According to incomplete statistics, Jinsha Hardware's monthly turnover amounted to 20 million to 30 million yuan, creating a large number of business opportunities for member companies. If a rechargeable battery manufacturing company uses Huanan Hardware Trading Network to carry out its business, it will be possible to save nearly RMB 10,000 per month for fax charges.

Another example is the production of construction decoration gun nail company, has been due to the lack of market information, resulting in a large number of product backlog, production in a long period of shutdown status, the boss holding the feeling of spending one or two thousand dollars to try to become a member of the site, who knows not In a month's time, it received information on the large number of guns and nails in various places. The original backlog of products with a price of several hundred thousand yuan was in short supply, and production was transferred to day and night overtime. At present, most of the company's business mainly comes from the Internet. The benefits have also been more than doubled in the past.