Friday, 21 April 2023 17:34

Huawei announces switch to MetaERP, redefining its core enterprise systems

Written by Evelyn Alas

Huawei has announced the replacement of its legacy ERP system with its MetaERP system, over which it has full control. Huawei today held the MetaERP awards ceremony to recognize the individuals and teams that have made key contributions to this project. Entitled "Heroes Struggling to Cross the Dadu River," the event was held at the company's Xi Liu Bei Po campus in Dongguan, China.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is the most important enterprise management IT system. In 1996, Huawei introduced the MRP II manufacturing resource planning system, which it later expanded into the ERP system after several iterative upgrades. The former ERP system has been the main system underpinning Huawei's business operations and rapid growth for more than 20 years. It has supported the efficiency of Huawei's operations, which generate billions of dollars a year in more than 170 countries and regions around the world.

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In 2019, Huawei began to face external pressure and larger business challenges. The company decided to develop the fully self-driven MetaERP system to replace the previous ERP system. This transformation project has been the most expensive and complex project Huawei has undertaken to date. Over the past three years, Huawei has invested a significant amount of resources and allocated several thousand people to the achievement of this project, as well as collaborating with industry and ecosystem partners to overcome the associated challenges. This new cloud-native, future-oriented, ultra-high-scale MetaERP system has already been implemented and has replaced the previous ERP system.

MetaERP currently manages 100% of Huawei's business situations and 80% of its business volume. MetaERP has already passed the tests of monthly, quarterly and annual settlements without generating any errors, delays or need for accounting corrections.

Tao Jingwen, Board Member and President of Huawei's Quality, Business Process and IT Management Department, commented, "More than three years ago, we disconnected from the old ERP system and other core management and operations systems. Since then, we have not only been able to develop our own MetaERP system, but also to manage the change and demonstrate its capabilities. Today, we are pleased to announce that we have overcome that hurdle - we survived!"

Huawei has full and complete control over MetaERP, which has been developed with other Huawei systems such as EulerOS and GaussDB. Huawei has also worked with its partners to incorporate advanced technologies such as cloud-native architecture, metadata-based multi-tenant architecture and real-time intelligence into the MetaERP system, which significantly improves service efficiency and operational quality. Huawei's guiding principles are to build the simplest possible architecture with the highest possible quality to deliver the best possible experience at the lowest possible cost.

Huawei will continue to collaborate with its partners in a wide variety of fields, including ERP and PLM, to develop more efficient and secure core enterprise systems that are not subject to any constraints.

Sabrina Meng, Huawei's rotating president and CFO, said, "Technological breakthroughs require a creative spirit and years of experience. More importantly, an open mindset that drives breakthroughs in our thinking. We could not have built MetaERP without the support of our partners. Innovation is only possible with an open mind and thriving is only possible when we work together".

 

Translated by: A.M