What is an ERP system?

ERP is Enterprise Resource planning (Enterprise resource plan) abbreviation, is an American IT company in the 90 's of the last century according to then computer information, it technology development and Enterprise to supply chain management demand, Forecast in the future Information Age Enterprise Management Information system development trend and impending change, and put forward this concept.

ERP is an integrated enterprise management software for material resource Management (logistics), human resource management (flow), financial resource management (wealth flow), information resource management (flow).

A concept developed by Gartner Group that describes the next generation manufacturing business systems and manufacturing Resource planning (MRP II) software. It will include a customer/service architecture, using a graphical user interface, and applying an open system fabrication. In addition to the existing standard features, it includes other features such as quality, process management, and adjustment reports. In particular, the basic technology used in ERP will also give users both software and hardware independence and thus easier to upgrade. The key to ERP is that all users can tailor their applications and thus have a natural ease of use.