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Tech war: Huawei shifts to self-developed business management system MetaERP to cut reliance on foreign tech amid US trade sanctions
- MetaERP, over which Huawei has ‘complete, full-stack control’, was built on the back of the company’s in-house operating system and database
- The development of MetaERP reflects the lengths taken by Huawei to strengthen its global operations, as US trade sanctions continue to bite
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Chinese telecommunications equipment powerhouse Huawei Technologies Co said it has switched to its self-developed enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, which marks the company’s latest effort to cut reliance on foreign-sourced technologies amid its struggles with US trade sanctions.
Shenzhen-based Huawei on Thursday said the firm’s new MetaERP represents “the most extensive and complex transformation project” it has ever undertaken, involving several thousand people who helped develop a business management software built on the back of its in-house operating system and database over which the company has “complete, full-stack control”.
An ERP system is used to efficiently manage all of a company’s major day-to-day business processes, including finance, human resources, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, sales and various other services.
“Innovation is only possible with an open mind, and thriving is only possible when we work together,” Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s rotating chairwoman and chief financial officer, said on Thursday at a ceremony in the southern industrial city of Dongguan, where the company honoured the contribution of all the employees and corporate partners involved in the firm’s MetaERP project.
MetaERP is now behind Huawei’s management of all its day-to-day processes and at least 80 per cent of its business data, after passing tests covering monthly, quarterly and annual settlements, according to the privately-held company.
The development of MetaERP reflects the lengths taken by Huawei to strengthen its global operations, as trade sanctions continue to bite and the company weighs its response to a US-China decoupling after reports that the Biden administration will cut off the firm from all of its American suppliers.
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