Some thoughts on implementing strategy of information construction in tobacco industry

Under the background of the globalization of world economy and information network, especially after entering WTO, the tobacco industry is facing the severe situation of squeezing, competition and internal annexation and reorganization of the international tobacco monopoly system. The macro-control and innovation ability of the industry will be the key to the success of the industry. The information management of the industry takes an important role in macro-management, scientific decision-making and micro-production management of enterprises. The application of information technology to deepen, promote enterprises to reduce consumption, improve customer satisfaction, enhance the enterprise and even the industry to participate in market competitiveness. The success of the industry information construction is an important symbol of the strength of the comprehensive industry. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to consider and explore the implementation strategy of industry informatization construction.

1 Industry informatization Construction should revolve around the industry economic technology Index system, constructs the decision support information management platform

A. The National Bureau and the Provincial Bureau (commercial companies), cigarette industry companies as the tobacco industry level two high-level management, the main function is the macro-control of the industry management. Therefore, the industry information construction should focus on the industry strategic policy, take the industry economic and technical index system as the core, with the principle of simplification, efficiency and norm, carry out the standard management to the logistics, capital flow and information flow of industry and commercial enterprise, and integrate the existing three basic software (ie: cigarette industry, cigarette sales, tobacco basic software) , three major online trading systems (ie: cigarettes, tobacco, materials online trading system), Computer Management Information System (MIS), Import Enterprise Resource planning (Enterprise Resources calculates ERP) management, system integration, and, at the same time, the establishment of the background Data Warehouse (DW), Building high-level information decision support system.

B. The National Bureau, the Provincial Bureau (company) and the cigarette industry company, the prefecture-level municipal Bureau (Limited company, the production company Limited) and so on three levels, takes the ERP management thought as the guidance, establishes all levels Enterprise (limited company) the MIS, and the Computer network system (NS), It is necessary to establish standard communication interface which is suitable for industry economic and technical index system.

C. Building the industry's overall network architecture. In order to break through the "bottleneck" limit of the local area network of the management organization and affiliated enterprises, remote query, statistic and analysis can be realized by Internet or virtual Private line network (VPN), and the browser/server (b/s) technology model based on Web technology is adopted. To reflect its good scalability and maintainability of the structural characteristics. Now based on the national Tobacco Leaf Information System (CTMIS) of the network architecture design for example, its B/S mode as shown in Figure 1.

Fig. 1 The network architecture design of the national Tobacco Leaf Information System (CTMIS) based on ERP

2 Enterprise Informatization Construction should take enterprise resource plan (ERP) as the core, build information management platform

A.ERP is an advanced enterprise management model, which integrates information technology with advanced management ideas. It takes enterprise process reengineering (Business process reengineering BPR) as the foundation, takes the management innovation as the premise, the management faces the entire supply chain of the enterprise, realizes the enterprise's logistics, the capital flow, the information flow comprehensive intelligence, the information management. Has the following functional characteristics.

(1) ERP has comprehensive integration function. It integrates materials management, production management, financial management, quality management, transportation management, distribution management, after-sales service management, human resources management, project management, laboratory management and other aspects.

(2) ERP has the function of supporting the mixed manufacturing environment. It can not only support the discrete manufacturing environment, but also support the process-oriented manufacturing environment. can provide customers with personalized customized manufacturing and service.

(3) The ERP system provides the powerful control and the auxiliary decision-making function. It provides the control function of the whole process, such as the output from the plan to the simulation result and the feedback information analysis. and integrated query, analysis, report integration tools, can provide comprehensive query, data modeling, statistical analysis, a variety of graphics output functions.

(4) ERP has the function of sharing network resources and data resources. The system adopts open client/server (c/s), browser/server (b/s) architecture and distributed processing technology. Realize the information sharing across time and space to ensure the efficient and reliable operation of the system.

(5) ERP has a good external extension (Extended ERP) function. System integration from the enterprise internal to the external extension to E-enterprises all (internal and external) important processes, and the extension of e-management decision support system.

Based on the functional characteristics of ERP, it coincides with the current tobacco industry to a high starting point, High-standard, high-quality information construction strategy. First of all, because ERP system also has a variety of business process customization options, at the same time, according to the enterprise and industry personalized requirements, implementation of two times development. As a group enterprise information management, it shows its unique advantages. Secondly, from the overall strength of the tobacco industry, it has been fully equipped with the implementation of the basic conditions of ERP management. Therefore, we believe that the choice of ERP system as a public platform for industrial and commercial enterprises. It can completely eliminate the "information Island" within the industry, establish the industry information superhighway, create the conditions for the formation of the industry flat management, and help to improve the overall management efficiency and regulation of the industry, and enhance the overall competitiveness of the industry.