Evolution of ERP in E-Business era

In the Era of E-Business, ERP encounters dramatic changes and challenges. How to understand and meet these challenges to make ERP effectively support the E-Business strategy is the most urgent and important problem. In this paper, through studying the dramatic changes on competitive rules, business model and managerial core in the new era, we pointed out that traditional ERP functions need innovations to support integrated supply chain resources and capabilities management, individualized customer information service, knowledge management, real-time online analytical processing of business and multi-levels real-time decision support to meet these changes and challenges. We discussed how to successfully implement the new ERP to support enterprise E-Business better in E-Business era.