This IDC study presents an overview of the manufacturing sector in China with a 20062010 forecast and provides the landscape and key dynamics of manufacturing IT adoption and solutions, a competitive analysis of key solution providers, and includes the profiles of a number of significant vendors.

"In IT solutions terms, manufacturers have invested in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems or at least the accounting and order/distribution/inventory IS to serve as transactional platforms for many of their enterprise operations. While many continue to put in place ERP systems for business process reengineering (BPR), those that have implemented such integrated platforms are extending their investments by adding other enterprise applications with deeper and more specialized capabilities in the form of supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), product data management/product life-cycle management (PDM/PLM), manufacturing execution system (MES), electronic design automation (EDA), and office automation (OA) solutions to improve different aspects of their operations along their customer, product development, and supply chains," says Jacky Chen, senior market analyst, Software and Services Team, IDC China.