|ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning| Enterprise Resource
Planning systems (ERPs) are process controled and information
management systems, that integrate and automate many of the
business practices associated with the operations or production
aspects of a company. What this simply means is that ERP allows
a company to cut costs while increasing IT system procifiency
thru properly integrated hardware and software 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.
That is a tall order, building a single software program that
serves the needs of people in finance as well as it does the
people in human resources and in the warehouse. Each of those
departments typically has its own computer system optimized for
the particular ways that the department does its work. But ERP
combines them all together into a single, integrated software
program that runs off a single databa