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enterprise
resource planning, a
business management system that integrates all facets
of the business, including planning, manufacturing, sales,
and marketing. As the ERP methodology has become more popular,
software applications have emerged to help business managers
implement ERP in business activities such as inventory control,
order tracking, customer service, finance and human resources.
Enterprise
resource planning
software, or ERP, doesn't live up to its acronym. Forget
about planning—it doesn't do much of that—and forget about
resource, a throwaway term. But remember the enterprise
part. This is ERP's true ambition. It attempts to integrate
all departments and functions across a company onto a single
computer system that can serve all those different departments'
particular needs |
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ERP
vanquishes the old standalone computer systems in finance,
HR, manufacturing and the warehouse, and replaces them
with a single unified software program divided into software
modules that roughly approximate the old standalone systems.
Finance, manufacturing and the warehouse all still get
their own software, except now the software is linked
together so that someone in finance can look into the
warehouse software to see if an order has been shipped.
Most vendors' ERP software is flexible enough that you
can install some modules without buying the whole package.
Many companies, for example, will just install an ERP
finance or HR module and leave the rest of the functions
for another day. |
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