The integration of PLM and ERP drives new advances in enterprise digitalization.
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2021-04-12 15:33
PLM and ERP systems are two critical technological domains within the current suite of advanced manufacturing technologies, both addressing enterprise management and forming the two cornerstone pillars of enterprise informationization. The mutually reinforcing evolution and growing integration of PLM and ERP have become focal topics in the development and implementation of manufacturing informatization.
PLM is software‑driven and product‑centric, integrating and managing all product‑related information, resources, and processes. It extracts relevant data from ERP systems, links it to product knowledge, and leverages this integration across the enterprise, enabling everyone—from order intake and design to manufacturing, procurement, and support—to work more quickly and efficiently.
ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. Its core management philosophy is supply-chain management, which treats the enterprise as an integrated whole. From a holistic optimization perspective, it employs scientific methods to rationally and effectively plan, organize, control, and adjust the company’s various manufacturing resources and all functional processes—production, procurement, sales, and finance—ensuring coordinated and orderly operations throughout the production process, thereby enhancing managerial efficiency and economic performance.
In terms of application objectives, PLM primarily encompasses product planning, product development, contract‑based product design, document management, process planning and management, process‑equipment design, manufacturing, and after‑sales service, providing enterprises with a unified platform for information integration and business collaboration across the entire product innovation lifecycle. ERP, on the other hand, focuses on sales, cost accounting, schedule planning, capacity‑requirements planning, procurement, manufacturing control, inventory management, financial management, production planning and control, and human resource management. In terms of management content and processes, PLM manages product‑related data—including planning, development, design, processes, and resources—and implements process‑level management over the creation and evolution of such data; ERP, by contrast, centers on managing the resources required for production and manufacturing, while exercising control over the production processes that utilize those resources.
Accordingly, our company will integrate PLM and ERP through their interface, thereby realizing the core value of enterprise informationization and, more importantly, enhancing the company’s competitive edge.
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