On the difficult solution to the integration of PDM and ERP

What is the most difficult thing to integrate PDM with ERP? In fact, the previous article said so much, nothing more than three problems: coding, BOM and process information. If these three fundamental problems are solved, the most difficult problem in PDM and ERP integration will be solved.

Let me talk about coding first. When I first entered the business in 2003, I went to an enterprise to implement the CAD system. This enterprise just started to implement the ERP system. The primary problem encountered in implementing the ERP system is coding. The company spent a total of 200,000 consulting fees for this purpose, asked a consulting company to do a coding system, and then set up a six-person coding team to be responsible for the implementation and promotion of the code. At that time, because all the parts codes were re-encoded according to the new coding rules, the author and the team leader of the coding team had many opportunities to communicate.

The material code of this company is very complicated, a total of 24 bits, divided into 5 segments, each segment has a different meaning. But the basic rule is "big class + small class + running water." The code was just implemented in the development department, and the technicians blew up the nest. They all opposed the new code in unison. The reason was that they could not understand one by one. The code of the previous part is the subordinate code. When you see the code of the part, you know which product the part is on. After replacing it with the new code, you only know that this part is probably a cast iron piece, which product belongs to Can't tell. Not only the developers don't know, but the workshop production staff doesn't know, so they often call the technicians to ask which product is on the product.

At the quarreling general discussion, the leader of the coding team said something that made me remember so far: the code is for the computer, not for people to see it! Later he told me that after the actual ERP goes online, ERP will According to the code, it tells you which product the part belongs to, without manual judgment.

In 2009, Professor Xiaotana of Germany came to China to give lectures. His point of view was more direct: to abandon this meaning code with classification relationship and use the water code directly! The direct evidence given by Xiaotana is that many German companies have used In the past ten years, the ERP system has not been used up. The reason is that with the gradual expansion of the business, it is found that the original meaning code cannot be supported. In short, it is the "code explosion"!

In the era of manual management, coding has two functions: one is to define the uniqueness of the material, and the other is to query. However, in the information age, the means of inquiry are abundant. As long as it is properly maintained, users can easily find the materials they are looking for through properties such as materials, dimensions and processing methods. Now even some PLM systems have a Google-like query method. If you enter any information, you can query the information and technical information that he has permission to view.

Therefore, after implementing the PDM or ERP system, the query function of the code is reduced, and only one function of identifying the uniqueness is left, and the flow code can fully satisfy the needs of the business management.

We are well aware that another important role of the classification code is to determine the material class of the material in the ERP system. With this in mind, the author's suggestion is to establish the same parts classification system as ERP in PDM and define the same category code for each category. When PDM imports the coded information of the component into the ERP, it automatically adds the category code to the pipe code of the component. Only in this way can the component coding in PDM and DERP be truly unified.

There is also a need to pay attention to a problem. Generally, ERP systems have length requirements for encoding. Some ERPs even require fixed-length code segments. Therefore, when designing a pipeline code, you need to define the length of the category code and the pipeline code.

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