ERP is Enterprise Resource Planning (Enterprise Resource Planning) for short. ERP is for material resource management (logistics), human resource management (people flow), financial resource management (financial flow), information resource management (information flow) integrated integration of enterprise management software."

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History of Development

The ERP of the 1990s was not a completely new system, it was gradually evolved from Material Requirements Planning (MRP) in the 1970s, and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) in the 1980s.

The American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), which is famous for promoting MRP and MRP II, mentioned in its explanation of the term ERP that the differences between an ERP system and a typical MRP II system are in the technical requirements, such as the graphical user interface (GUI), the relational database, the use of external and internal integrations with the customer's suppliers, and the production of a variety of reports as needed.

The concept of ERP is a well-known industrial technology research unit - Gartner Group in the early 1990s, based on the development of information technology and supply chain management concepts, in order to infer the development trend of the manufacturing industry management information system. Simply put, ERP is "a large modular, integrated process-oriented system that integrates internal financial accounting, manufacturing, sales and inventory information flow, and quickly provides decision-making information to enhance the operational performance of enterprises and rapid response capability." It is the back-end heart and backbone of an e-enabled enterprise, and any front-end applications including EC, CRM, SCM, etc. are based on it.

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