Enterprise Resource Planning Laboratory

The SEEM Department is well equipped for advanced education and research with the most up-to-date equipment and facilities. Our laboratories include:

Overview

The ERP Lab of the Systems Engineering & Engineering Management Dept of CUHK, established in 1998, supports research and teaching for enterprise management solutions, including logistics and supply chain management, e-commerce and operations planning.

It is necessary for companies to have dynamic strategies to meet the challenges of today's fast-paced business world. The ability to respond nimbly to new customer needs and seize market opportunities as they arise is crucial. Modern logistics management requires seamless co-ordination of goods production, material distribution/transport and information flow. Enterprise planning systems which satisfy the full range of business requirements, including financial accounting and controlling, sales and distribution, materials management, production planning, and human resources management, have been demonstrated to be a powerful tool.

With worth more than 20 million HK$ generous support from local industry, the Enterprise Resources Planning Laboratory(ERP Lab) provides a state-of-art facilities for teaching and research, which include one IBM Server AS/400, one Digital Server 4100, and Enterprise Planning Systems.

Research in the ERP Lab addresses both basic and applied research issues, including supply chain management, enterprise resource planning and optimization, production logistics, manufacturing systems modeling, business process reengineering, and manufacturing information systems.

The state-of-the-art systems in the ERP Lab also provides the students with hands-on experience in "industrial-strength" projects.

Research

Projects supported by the ERP Lab include:

  Advance planning system (APS)
  Supply chain synchronizer
  Competitive behavior in e-commerce
  Co-ordinating quality control and replenishment in multi-stage supply networks
  Map-based vehicle routing/dispatch system
  Innovation and technology transfer

Resources

Hardware

  IBM AS/400 server
  Cluster of Digital Enterprise Servers
  20 workstations and 20 PCs

Software

  Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
  Database Management Systems
  Oracle, Informix
  Support both Unix and PC Window platforms

Teaching Support Equipment

  Video/Audio Systems
  Picture Capture Systems
  multi-media presentation equipment

People

  Prof. X.Q. Cai
  Prof. C.H. Cheng
  Prof. J.M.Y. Leung
  Prof. H. Yan
  Prof. D.D. Yao