PLM and ERP systems are two important technical fields related to enterprise management in the current advanced manufacturing technology group, which constitute two supporting systems of enterprise informatization. PLM and ERP promote each other's development and integration, and the trend has also become a hot topic in the development and implementation of manufacturing informatization.
Based on software technology and taking products as the core, PLM integrates and manages all product related information, resources and product related processes, extracts relevant information from ERP system, associates it with product knowledge, and then makes it used in enterprises, so that everyone from market orders, design to manufacturing, procurement to support can work faster and efficiently.
ERP is enterprise resource planning, and its core management idea is supply-demand chain management. Taking the enterprise as an organic whole, from the perspective of overall optimization, it uses scientific methods to reasonably and effectively plan, organize, control and adjust various manufacturing resources and various links such as production, supply, marketing and finance, so as to make them coordinate and orderly in the production process, so as to improve the management level and economic benefits of the enterprise.
In terms of application objectives, PLM is mainly reflected in product planning, product development, contract product design, document management, process planning and management, process equipment design, manufacturing and maintenance services, providing enterprises with a unified platform for information integration and business collaboration in the whole process of product innovation; ERP is mainly embodied in sales, cost accounting, schedule planning, capacity demand planning, procurement, manufacturing control, inventory management, financial management, plan control and human resource management. In terms of management content and process, PLM manages product data information such as product planning, development, design, process and resources, and carries out process management on the formation process of product data information; ERP mainly manages the resources used for manufacturing and controls the production process of resource utilization.
Therefore, our company will integrate PLM and ERP through the interface, which reflects the core value of enterprise information construction and, more importantly, improves the core competitiveness of the enterprise.