There is a term in the stock market called "linkage". For example, if spot gold rises, gold concept stocks will also rise. The key characteristics of linkage are two points. One is that one variety rises or falls first, and the other is that another variety follows in a very short period of time. For example, if the share price of Kweichow Moutai suddenly reaches the daily limit, no matter what the reason is, the stocks in the entire liquor sector, such as Luzhou Laojiao, Wuliangye, and Jiugui Liquor, will rise in turn. This situation is called "sector effect" in the stock market, which is actually a manifestation of linkage.

After spending a long time in a factory, you will find that the problem of factory management is nothing more than minimizing the impact of "interconnection".Xu ZefuThere is a scene in "ERP Core Principles": the sales department is very effective in promoting products, but the production department cannot deliver on time and is forced to pay customers fines for delayed shipments. It is also common to rush to airfreight materials. The production department complains that the purchasing department does not supply the raw materials they need in time. The warehouse also complains about the purchasing department: too many materials are purchased, which puts pressure on inventory. Some of the stockpiled materials cannot be used up for several years, and the amount of scrapped materials caused by the backlog is astonishing. The purchasing department complains that it is a thankless task: suppliers are not trustworthy and often postpone delivery. The planning department often does not give enough lead time and accurate purchase quantity. The planning department complains that the parts list data provided by the engineering department is inaccurate and often changes without timely notification. The data of the warehouse department cannot be trusted, so some materials can only be purchased based on experience. The engineering department blames the frequent changes in customer orders. The finance department only uses the data provided by various departments as a reference and does not use it to calculate manufacturing costs...

When an enterprise introduces an ERP system, it integrates all resources with the help of information technology and systems, establishes the correlation between the work of each department, allows the enterprise to integrate the main business processes, share common data and distribute it throughout the enterprise, avoids errors caused by repeated input, and provides a real-time environment for paperless generation and cross-departmental access to business information. Most companies start their informatization with an ERP system, but the implementation effect is always disappointing.

Why are some ERPs easy to use? Some ERPs are not easy to use? Even if it is the same ERP system, some people say it is easy to use? And some people feel the opposite, why is this so? Back to the ERP itself, it is an enterprise resource planning software. What are the resources of the enterprise? Nothing more than "people, machines, materials, methods, environment, and measurement", so what makes these resources merge? It is the process. So, what is the process? In short, the process is a process composed of process nodes and execution methods in an orderly manner. Or it can be said that it is a series of orderly and complete steps or operations to achieve the desired goals or products. The key point: "nodes, orderly", doesn't it depend on whether the linkage of the ERP system is good?

When Fangtian R&D personnel were planning the new T-ONE system, the first thing they considered was the linkage between systems! They even proposed such a hypothesis, asking the personnel involved in the new project to think: Can the operation of the system be done in only two steps? The first step: upload the BOM; the second step: report to the workshop. The intermediate steps, such as submitting a purchase request and generating a process card, are all automatically triggered by the system? So this magical operation came. After the designer uploaded the parts list, after the supervisor reviewed it, the system background automatically generated a purchase request, process card, etc., without the need for the procurement or IE engineer of the next process to do anything.

All things in the world exist in the same world, and there is no linkage. You influence me, I influence you, sometimes you have a greater influence, sometimes I have a greater influence. There is no truth or principle in the world. It is just a linkage imposed by people with greater influence on people with less influence.