When he got up early in the morning, Li Ran accompanied his mother to breakfast, which was also the first time he had eaten with his relatives in this time and space.

Breakfast was just a simple steamed bun, fritters, millet porridge, a very simple and ordinary meal, but Gu Yushu ate it very fragrantly. In the United States, there is not much difference in eating in the embassy because of the Chinese chefs, but although the food is the same, it is different from your own home in a foreign country.

After eating, Li Ran has to go to the company, the documents brought back yesterday have not been processed, and they must be processed today.

After sending him to the company, Li Ran asked Chen Hu to go back. Yesterday's incident reminded him that his mother was not an ordinary old lady after all. As a director-level cadre, she will not have any less things to do than Li Ran, so she even left the car with the driver.

When I arrived at the company, I was really uncomfortable looking at the crowded office area. Although the office area of each department has been divided by partitions during the renovation, due to the dense crowd, there is a feeling of depression as soon as you come in.

Entering the office, Zhao Ya had already put another stack of documents on the table, waiting for him to deal with it. Facing a stack of documents to be read, I feel a little pain in my head, and I really have the illusion that things are too busy to end the year. With a wry smile, he took a sip of the tea that Zhao Ya had brewed in advance, cheered up and sat down to continue to read.

However, as soon as he began to approve, Wang Kai, the vice president of the planning center, knocked on the door with the manager in charge of the planning department to report the planning plan of the planning center.

The explanations of the two men and the description of the plan itself successfully aroused Li Ran's interest, and after omitting most of the flashy rhetoric, its core is "ERP", which is the abbreviation of Enterprise Resource Planning.

To put it simply, the ERP system is to use a software management platform to integrate manufacturing, supply and marketing, and finance. Its functions include multi-plant management, quality management, laboratory management, equipment maintenance management, warehouse management, transportation management, process control interface, data acquisition interface, electronic communication, e-mail, regulations and standards, project management, financial investment management, market information management, etc.

The core idea is supply chain management. Jumping out of the boundaries of traditional enterprises, optimizing the resources of enterprises from the scope of the supply chain, and optimizing the operation mode of modern enterprises, reflects the requirements of the market for the reasonable allocation of resources by enterprises. It plays a significant role in improving the business process of the enterprise and improving the core competitiveness of the enterprise.

Whether Wang Kai has the ability to make an evaluation for the time being, but his insight is definitely much higher than that of most of the management of Wanjia. ERP software was proposed in 1990 by Gartner Group in the United States, and its predecessor was MRPII (Enterprise Manufacturing Resource Planning) for enterprise resource planning.

The ERP system may not be known to many people in China at this stage, but MRPII is not new in China. In 1981, Fengtian No. 1 Machine Tool Factory introduced the first set of MRPII software from the German Society of Engineers, and now MRPII has been applied in China for 10 years.

In the planning case, Wang Kai's purpose is to improve the management efficiency of Wanjia's various stores, but it is not too prominent for other roles. However, Li Ran knew in his heart that the promotion of Wanjia after this system was higher than Wang Kai imagined, and he was a little reluctant to go to the end.

The biggest benefit of this system for home appliance retail enterprises like Wanjia is that they need to reduce inventory, improve capital utilization and control business risks; Control product production costs and shorten product production cycles; Improve product quality and pass rate; Reduce the amount of financial bad debts and bad debts. This is the real benefit, as for improving management efficiency is not the most urgent.

During Li Ran's previous life in college, a professor once talked about this system in detail in a business administration class, and the examples were Haier and Lenovo. The successful trial of these two companies detonated the domestic market, and since then, many foreign-funded and Taiwan-funded manufacturers have flocked to seize the Chinese market.

However, the difficulty in getting into this system is not in the software facilities, but in the hardware facilities. The two key factors are computers and networks, the price of computers in the nineties is definitely a luxury among luxury goods, and the worst is more than 10,000 yuan. However, compared to the computer, the Internet is the most distressing, 60 an hour!

The problem of not being able to get on this system made Li Ran very hesitant, if the cost was too high, at least about 10 million funds had to be prepared, but some time ago, in order to buy an office building, buy a car and open a Songjiang branch, the gap in funds on the books would be very large. If you wait another year or two, the cost of computers and networks will drop and the cost will be much lower, and you don't have to worry about upgrading for a period of time.

However, Li Ran found after estimating that with the development speed of 10,000 homes today, the sales network in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be rolled out within a year, but at least three to four branches will be added, and if the logistics network of 10,000 logistics is counted, the traditional management method is absolutely not suitable, and will breed a large number of problems such as corruption and financial corruption. Waiting until the problem occurs to deal with it is not Li Ran's style, so he can only grit his teeth and deploy in advance.

Let Wang Kai first communicate with domestic and foreign companies such as Dingxin, Kaisi, SAP, SCALA, SYMIX, etc., and also try to contact Lenovo to see if he can sell Lenovo's products as an agent, so that he can not only expand the sales category, but also consume it internally at a lower price. After the negotiation, make a specific plan and submit it for review, and then submit it for financial approval.

Finally, Li Ran specially told Wang Kai to strive to be able to use it when Wanjia Logistics established the Beijing-Tianjin-Shanghai logistics network before June 94, so that it can be docked and facilitate the rapid development of Wanjia. However, considering the problem of funding, even if all aspects are negotiated, I am afraid that it will not officially start until March next year, so his time is not urgent.

Li Ran really didn't think of the ERP system before, and it was thanks to him that he proposed it, otherwise Li Ran might not have thought of it if it had to happen. In fact, aside from other only talking about ability, he has been slightly disappointed in Wang Kai during this period of time. It can't be said that he is poorly capable, compared to most of Wanjia's current management, he is qualified for the position of vice president of the planning center, but it is a little mismatched with his rather "legendary" experience. It can only be said that Sears, as an American retail giant, is not as "dog-eyed and low-looking" as Wang Kai said, and he is just the survival of the fittest when he is laid off.

Seeing Wang Kai away, Li Ran thought for a while and then continued to review the documents until he got off work at noon.

Without a car, he had to take a taxi back. It's also very convenient, after all, there aren't too many people taking a taxi these days, so you don't have to worry about not being able to get a taxi.

When I got home, the old lady was pushing her two children around the yard in a small bamboo cart. In this weather, Li Ran and an adult felt that the weather was a little cold, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Mom, why did you get the child outside." ”

The old lady said very reasonably: "If you lock the two children in the house all day long, if you are a child, would you be happy?" Even if you are afraid that your child will catch a cold, you can just wear more clothes. He complained to the old lady, but was beaten down by the old lady.

Then the old lady kept instilling parenting scriptures in him, and the children were also particular about eating, wearing, living, and playing, so that Li Ran had to wonder if he had raised two fake children. For example, when the child reaches the age of five months, what complementary food should be added, how to train the child to speak, and how to take the child out at ordinary times. There are some taboos that Li Ran has never heard, such as "playing wow", to be reasonable, he never knew that this game turned out to be the rhythm of the old people training children to occur rhythmically, perceiving the vibration of sound, rather than simply playing games.

Therefore, it is said that "there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure", although the old lady's parenting scripture talks about Li Ran is a little big, but to be honest, having an old man by his side is really more homely. The feeling is really homely and comfortable.