A study of performance evaluation on the introduction of enterprise resource planning into agriculture

In order to accelerate and upgrade the industry in the 21st century to face the wave of globalization, both individuals and corporate organizations encounter severe challenges in the era with diverse social environment and changing technology. Strategic planning and management are necessary for enhancing the competitiveness of an enterprise so as to complete the resource integration and planning as well as develop and maintain the existing competition ability of the organization. Aiming to integrate the mutual link of agricultural business management functions, domestic agricultural resource planning intends to enhance the utilization through resource sharing and service sharing. DEA is applied to measure the effectiveness of the introduction of enterprise resource planning into agriculture in this study. Total 3 input/output variables are used in this study, and, with cities in Fujiang Province as the samples, total 9 DMUs are selected. The research results show 1.the technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and returns to scale of cities measured with DEA, 2.sensitivity analysis with inputs and outputs being removed one by one and then DEA to understand the sensitivity to efficiency, and 3.the application of slack variable analysis to realize the improvement directions for inputs and outputs in areas introducing enterprise resource planning into agriculture. Suggestions are further proposed according to the results, expecting domestic agriculture to achieve resource sharing and service sharing and internal operation management to catch up agribusinesses.