ERP - What is ERP?

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               I will post an article daily about ERP and its various types of Modules and its advantages.

               ERP is a booming IT product which can get you a high paid, well respected job.

               I have been working with ERP packages as a Functional & Technical Consultant for more than 3 years and have completed Three projects in Export and Retail sectors and I really love working with the ERP solutions since it never says NO to any thing.

              With the latest technology of OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Technology we can analyze reports in a very different unique and a very special manner.

              Today I have posted just a simple introduction about ERP.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the planning of how business resources (materials,inventory,employees, customers etc.) are acquired and moved from one state to another.

An ERP system is a business support system that maintains in a single database the data needed for a variety of business functions such as Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Financials, Projects, Human Resources and Customer Relationship Management.

An ERP system is based on a common database and a modular software design. The common database can allow every department of a business to store and retrieve information in real-time. The information should be reliable, accessible, and easily shared. The modular software design should mean a business can select the modules they need, mix and match modules from different vendors, and add new modules of their own to improve business performance.

Simply speaking the front end of the Software has form like modules where you can key in the data in their respective fields for example, In CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Module of ERP, lets consider the case of new customer detail is being added / uploaded.

Add New Customer Module

Customer Name:                                       D.O.B: 

Address for Communication:

Contact Number:      Landline:                         Mobile:

E-mail Address:

All the above fields when filled in by the one who uses the module, will be like shown below:

Customer Name:  Frank Martin                            D.O.B: 09.08.1978

Address for Communication: 141, Rocks Lane, Newark, USA

Contact Number:      Landline: 510- 541-4141         Mobile: N/A

E-mail Address: Frankmartin@transporter.com

So once after all these data are collected, the system asks about saving the data, When clicked OK

The saved data is posted into the tables designed and designated for the details - the new customer details and is stored. Whenever the user needs to know about the particular customer, his merchandise, his frequency of purchases, high value purchase or low value purchase whether he pays by credit card or debit card or by cash etc etc can be analyzed and tabulated using the ERP system.

Ideally, the data for the various business functions are integrated. In practice the ERP system may comprise a set of discrete applications, each maintaining a discrete data store within one physical database.

Thus is what you have to know about the ERP basically and from tomorrow onwards lets discuss in depth about the concepts...

Tomorrow's Topic:

           " Origin of the Term and Overview"