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An Introduction To ERP

Information technology has transformed therelated to Manufacturing Industry and was
way we live live in and the way we dodesigned to control manufacturing process and
business. Since last decade, I.T. has made aplanning the required production with
drastic change in our life. As compared toefficient output. Where as MRP is the
earlier stage, when computer was used just asevolution of Inventory Management & Control
a typewriter, nowadays users have become moreconceived in 1960s, which was mainly designed
intelligent and IT literate. Now the userfor management of Stocks in any particular
knows that a PC can do many more thingsindustry. ERP has expanded from coordination
rather then just typing a letter in a wordof manufacturing processes to the integration
processing software or making balance sheetsof enterprise-wide backend processes like
in excel. They expect more things out ofproduction planning and scheduling of
their PC. During this phase of industry,delivery. In terms of technology, ERP has
every one of us must have heard the word ERPevolved from legacy implementation to more
in one or the other form. It may be in titleflexible  tiered  client-server architecture.
of any IT magazine or may be a point of
discussion in any IT Seminar or may be in anBenefits  of  ERP
advertisement of big IT Company. Thus in any
form, we all have been through this word. InERP software attempts to integrate business
this short article, I'll try to conciselyprocesses across departments ionto a single
explain the basic yet important conceptsenterprise-wide information system. The major
relevant  to  ERP.benefits of ERP are improved coordination
across functional departments and increased
What  is  ERP  ?efficiencies of doing business. The
implementations of ERP systems help to
ERP is one of the most widely implementedfacilitate day-to-day management as well. ERP
business software systems in a wide varietysoftware systems are originally and
of industries and organizations. ERP is theambitiously designed to support resource
acronym of Enterprise Resource Planning. ERPplanning portion of strategic planning. In
is just not only a software. ERP definitionreality, resource planning has been the
refers to both; ERP software and businessweakest link in ERP practice due to the
strategies  that  implement  ERP  systems.complexity of strategic planning and lack of
adequate integration of ERP with Decision
ERP implementation utilizes various ERPSupport  Systems  (DSS).
software applications to improve the
performance  of  organizations  forFamous  ERP  Software
1)  resource  planning,No one from IT industry will be unknown from
the word SAP. SAP is the most successful ERP
2)  management  control  andSoftware. To name more here are some
examples:
3)  operational  control.
PeopleSoft
ERP software consists of multiple software
modules that integrate activities acrossSysPro
functional departments - from production
planning, parts purchasing, inventory controlORION  Enterprise
and product distribution to order tracking.
Most ERP software systems include applicationMatrix
modules to support common business activities
like finance, accounting and human resources.(In the past, we have implemented Matrix ERP
solution  for  one  of  our  clients)
ERP  Systems
ERP  Failures
ERP is much more than just a computer
software. An ERP System includes ERPI couldn't conclude my brief guide to ERP
Software, Business Processes, Users andwithout mentioning ERP failures. The failures
Hardware that run the ERP software. An ERPof Crore rupees ERP projects are reported
system is more than the sum of its parts oronce in a while even after many years of ERP
components. Those components interactimplementation.
together to achieve a common goal -
streamline and improve organizations'There  are four components of an ERP System -
business processes. Most important factor for
ERP system is the users. Successful1)  ERP  software,
implementation of any ERP System more depends
on intelligent users who are going to use2) Business Processes that ERP software
them, because any standard ERP Software wouldsupports,
consist hundreds of input information for any
particular business activity. Thus good3)  Users  of  ERP  systems,  and
knowledge of each entity of system to the
users is most important factor in ERP4) Hardware and Operating Systems that run
Software.ERP  applications.
History  of  ERPThe failures in one or more of those four
components can cause the failure of an ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is theproject. Discussions on each of the four
evolution of Manufacturing Requirementstopics will require new article, so I may
Planning (MRP) II in 1980s, which was mainlycome up with same in my next article.



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