Q1. What is the business of Sinosteel, what are its major challenges, and how would an ERP system address the challenges they face?

Sinosteel is a company that is in charge of producing and processing metallurgical mineral resources, trading and logistics raw materials and products, and it is also related engineering technical service and equipment manufacture. The company is decentralized (it has many subsidiaries), while its business is expanding all around the world.

It has core business in resources development, trade & logistics, engineering project and science & technology, equipment manufacturing and specialized service, providing comprehensive auxiliary service for steel industry, especially steel mills.

Maintenance of economic and technological cooperation with other nations and global companies and strengthen its global reach. As well as, along with other state enterprises, continue efforts to expand the global control over commodities-key, thus exclusivity to get stream in the provision that will ensure a steady stream of resources to the booming economy of China.

Sinosteel has grown through the acquisition of hundreds of small companies, and many medium to large size companies. In the process, the company has inherited the information systems, accounting, customer, supplier, and human resource systems and policies of its many subsidiaries. ( There will be data inconsistency problems, the system can not integrate, cause the system to chaos)

They optimize management processes, standardize coding, regulations, etc. prevention of information risks, adapt industry processes and superior ownership expertise, centralize and unify the communication process, reports, accountancy, etc.

- Improving and consolidating its management, overwhelming their lack of centralization.
- Being more efficient, at the level of resources management, human