ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a system based on IT technology / computers and advanced software systems, which is used to facilitate the monitoring and control of the main operations performed by a business, organization or enterprise, such as: production, trade, distribution, services etc.
ERP systems have emerged as a response to the need of creating an integrated system to unify a number of small applications, each of which being specifically designed to meet the needs of and to be used by a department in a company / enterprise. In today’s ERP systems we find these old applications as modules of the ERP Integrated system: Management – Inventory, Suppliers, Customers, Payments, Collection, Services, Manufacturing, Accounting, Fixed Assets, Payroll or as components tightly integrated with the ERP software: BI – Business Intelligence, SFA / CRM, WMS (warehouse, bar codes), EDI, Retail (POS integration and cash registers) or online shops (e-shop).