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What is meant by ERP? What are it’s contents? What is the process? How it is beneficial to an organisation?

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ERP (enterprise resource planning)is comprised of modular application software that helps manufacturers plan and thus increase the efficiency and productivity of mission-critical aspects of their business. Examples of such mission-critical aspects include inventory control, human resources, financing, etc.). The benefits are two-fold: modular app sofware allows for scalability and customization so business needs specific to a company’s operations can be met. Second, ERP helps in planning expansion – literally, resource planning as a company expands or even changes direction (e.g., move into on-line sales). There are many good ERP sites and one linked to this site. If you join techproguild (30 day free trial) you have access to the ERP supersite. You’ll get briefings on growth and changes within enterprise systems; discussions about implementations, costs, etc.

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Enterprise resource planning is a set of software applications that automate finance and human resources departments and help manufacturers handle jobs such as order processing and production scheduling. The program is modular allowing a company to add units for management in their business as needed. The benefit is that with software management throughout the company being created as a whole, it makes using software from different areas in the company, or new additions similar and easily learned. By being modulated, a business only needs buy what it needs at the time isntead of buying a huge package that is extremely expensive and only using a portion of it.

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Enterprise Resource Planning is the meaning of a set of Integrated Software Applications focused to cover the core aspects of the Business (form Production and Distribution, to Finance and HHRR). Usually ERP are closed relation with Business Processes, instead of with specific Functional Requirements. The benefit for Organizations comes from an easy way to “adopt” specific and recognized business Practices. The Bad news use to be connected with “adaptation” to specific business process, as wellas from integration with existing/legacy applications.

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ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning. An ERP application can incorporate many different applications that help run a company. These applications include finance, HR, sales order processing, production planning and scheduling, purchasing, stock control, financial controlling. Ideally an ERP set of applications are integrated with one another. Integrated ERP systems that incorporate all elements for managing a company have tended to be monolithic in nature. Do everything and integrated but definitely not very modular, although they may appear to be modular from a user perspective. An organisation that uses an ERP system has the opportunity to better understand that organisation. By having (in one system) all the information relating to its operations it is more easily possible to for better understanding hence better relationships with customers and suppliers and at the same time maximise the value of the organisation.

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Companies of all sizes and industries are installing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software in order to improve business processes or replace aging enterprise systems. The implementation of an ERP system involves a complex set of tasks, from selection and system design, to installation, tuning, maintenance and upgrade. The core set of technologies and capabilities needed to accomplish these tasks is often not obtainable in-house, due to high costs and lack of resources. This means that ERP customers must find ways to engage top-notch ERP experts while controlling costs and still be able to implement and maintain a strategic ERP system. Handing off all or part of the responsibility for implementation and maintenance – also know as ERP outsourcing – is an increasingly viable and important option for ERP customers. This report defines the ERP outsourcing option for customers and describes the outsourcing capabilities of Origin Technology in Business.

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ERP is a successful philosopny of managing factories that has been around for about 20 years. It is to manufacturing what accounting is to the front office, although it is possible to do accounting without a computer, it is not possible to do ERP without a computer.

It is one of the reasons why North American Factories are able to compete successfully with countries whose labor force earns a tiny fraction of North American laborers. Thanks to ERP, factories in NAFTA are able to produce better quality products at lower prices more quickly than their Asian & other competitors & also make a good profit, but it won’t be long before ERP is world wide.

One of the appeals of ERP is that data from different parts of the company are “integrated” into a common whole. You do not have different people managing different data bases whose contents are not in sync. You do not have people transcribing data from one computer to another computer. Data flows from department to department instantaneously.

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ERP is a Planning Loop … customers orders drive scheduling of making all the subcomponents with factory orders which drive demand for raw materials which drive purchase orders to get them on-time which drive cost of everything and budget to get the job done & cash flow predictable.

But it only works if the humans work with the computer in a team effort, which means a totally different philosophy of education … 100% of the work force has to get relevant education in information technology … it is no longer just for computer professionals & hands on the computer clerks … the education is needed for the top managers to the lowest level laborers, otherwise the system is not going to work right.

Check out what I said in another ERP posting … the increase in profits are astronomical … ERP is expensive to implement but it pays for itself many times over in a few years.

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