Informatization of Chemical Industry: basic construction is the key

Do not do the information "Face project"

China Chemical Information Center, the national Chemical enterprises in the first time, completed the "National Chemical Enterprise informatization Application Survey" shows: there are more than 95% enterprises have different forms of information leading agencies or managers, more than 70% of enterprises have or are building enterprise information Network system. But not optimistic figures also show that the vast majority of chemical enterprise information applications are not popular, the number of enterprises per capita network information is seriously insufficient (35.6/thousand), the basic construction of computer information system is mainly concentrated in production control, financial system; Some enterprises have already built or are building management Information System (60%) and enterprise Resource Planning (30%); The annual investment of the chemical enterprises in the network infrastructure, application system development and maintenance is not enough 0.7 of the total assets of the enterprise, accounting for 0.9 of the annual sales of enterprises, which has a considerable gap with the statistics of the enterprises ' informatization construction investment in the developed countries.

At the same time, we must soberly realize that in China's chemical industry a considerable number of enterprises information management level is low, the information base is poor this reality. The specific performance is: Enterprise's information system operation system is not perfect, information management is not standardized, enterprise internal Information network distribution data is too few and unreasonable layout, the data format of various reports in enterprise is not conform to the standard, information processing and transmission methods lag behind to form a large number of isolated islands; The technical quality of information workers does not conform The informatization of all enterprises is low, and a lot of valuable information resources are not effectively excavated. Therefore, it can be said that the current chemical enterprise informatization is no longer the "Face Project", "dispensable" problem, has become a constraint on the further development of chemical enterprises bottleneck problem, to the extent of not.

Current development strategies

At present, the development strategy of Chinese chemical enterprise informatization should include the following five aspects:

First of all, do a good job of enterprise information preparation. We should strengthen the sense of urgency and responsibility of enterprise informatization, establish the information work system based on enterprise information Supervisor (CIO), study and formulate the overall planning and technical plan of enterprise Informatization, and prepare funds, technology and talents.

Second, the enterprise internal resources integration. In accordance with the requirements of internal resource management, to achieve basic management, research and development of information. With the help of enterprise resource Planning (ERP), Computer Integrated manufacturing system (CIMS), CAD (CAD), the connection of research and development, production, supply, marketing and service is realized, and the resources such as human, financial, material and technology are optimized.

Third, the use of external resources of enterprises. Through strengthening the supply chain management between enterprises, customer resource Management (CRM), close the relationship between enterprises and suppliers, vendors, tracking technology, customers, markets, to ensure timely understanding of market changes, rapid response and competitive advantage.

Set up an electronic business community. Enterprise information development to a certain stage, from its own information to the establishment of internet-based electronic business community. Through the Internet, in the same industry, in the upstream and downstream enterprises to carry out trade and business collaboration, information real-time interaction to achieve information sharing, reduce intermediate links, eliminate information barriers.

Five, carry out electronic commerce. On the basis of the integration of information resources within the enterprise, the enterprise realizes the information gathering, exchange and sharing, and upgrades the information platform to the trading platform, and actively and steadily carries out the electronic commerce.

Pay attention to the basic construction

In recent years, the information construction of chemical Enterprises has made great strides, many enterprises are actively carrying out or preparing to establish enterprise information system. However, it is not difficult to find out the construction of enterprise information system, the vast majority of enterprise informatization projects in the planning process, in the capital investment, there are emphasis on hard soft, light technology, lightweight information, emphasis on the concept of light applications. Over the years, many enterprises in this area has eaten a lot of losses, but still did not arouse the full recognition of everyone.

The key element of Enterprise Informatization is to take the enterprise's own demand as the driving force, solve the enterprise's own problem as the goal, instead of seeing whether the technology is advanced and whether the money is enough. Comparing with the process of the informatization of foreign advanced chemical Enterprises, all of them are developed on the basis of a lot of basic system construction and information resource accumulation. EC (e-commerce) system is built on ERP system, ERP is built on Cims, Cims is built on DCS (direct control system), which enables them to carry out the efficiency of each subsystem in the process of implementing each informatization project. The most of the informationization of our chemical enterprises is in the original information level is very low under the conditions, starting from zero. If we do not pay attention to the information infrastructure, it will make information become source, roots, become castles in the castle, can not play the effectiveness of information.

Enterprise information infrastructure can be summed up from the following 3 aspects:

1. Sharing and making full use of information resources

The core of enterprise Informatization is the development and utilization of information resources, and the lack of unified planning and standards, the imperfect rules and regulations is the disease of China's chemical enterprise informatization. Some enterprises have developed enterprise Intranet (Intranet), set up Internet web site, but over the years decentralized development or introduction of information systems, forming a lot of information islands, the lack of shared, networked information resources. How to integrate the enterprise information system with the enterprises ' Internet engineering so that enterprises within the enterprise and customers, suppliers, business partners of the flow of information, how to do the overall planning and design, organizational engineering implementation, to avoid the spread of decentralized development or software to introduce unsuccessful old road, to avoid the formation of new information islands, thus a high starting point, It is an important problem that can not be neglected to construct high-efficiency modern enterprise information network efficiently. The enterprise informatization three points in the technology, seven points in the management, the Informationization core is the information resources sharing and the full use.

2. Team Building and talent training

Enterprise Informatization is a systematic project, in this project people are the first. The process of enterprise informatization is bound to infringe on the interests of some people, you have to share his information, is to deprive him of a part of the right, he will have a sense of crisis. Only through the team building and personnel training, the full mobilization of all levels of departments, staff at all levels of enthusiasm to effectively achieve the goal of enterprise Informatization.

3, the Enterprise informatization should start from the management, optimizes the enterprise operation model

The development and application of information technology brings the unprecedented collision between new thinking and working mode and traditional management mode. Many enterprises, although very yearning for information management, but there are all sorts of puzzles and "fear." At the same time, China's ERP market has only begun to prosper in recent years, all aspects are still further standardized. Enterprises to walk through ERP, no doubt need to cross a lot of Gougou. Before the implementation of ERP projects, enterprises often need to consider the problems of consulting, product selection and system value evaluation in three aspects.

It needs the organic combination of technology innovation and management innovation to promote enterprise informatization. Enterprise Informatization is a technical problem, but also a management problem, so to promote the informatization of enterprises, it is necessary to combine the technological innovation, management innovation and system innovation.