What is an ERP system? What is this for?

The full name of ERP in Chinese is enterprise resource planning, which is a computer system for enterprise resource management and business process management, focusing on the utilization, management and integration of enterprise resources.

ERP starts with planning, which can be a big order in the market or a strategic goal of an enterprise. The realization of this order or goal needs the support of various resources of the enterprise, including human resources, production resources, equipment resources, financial resources, procurement resources, customer resources and so on.

Its role is to effectively plan and utilize these resources, that is, to achieve the expected goals through mastery, management and control.

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Application scope of ERP system

1, applicable to sales management. As an advanced management software, its software system adopts a scientific overall planning method, so in the sales process, it starts with order generation, invoicing, collection and contract printing. Uploading the final sales statistics report and customer statement profit statistics to erp management system software can achieve very good results.

2, suitable for production management. Including a series of advanced production management issues such as production order, production plan, BOM management, R&D design, production and processing orders, production processing, production monitoring and so on. In addition, in the production, erp management software will also bring more problems such as cost accounting and production statistics into the system, reflecting the professionalism of the system to the greatest extent.

3. Suitable for financial management. After installing erp management system software, all accounts such as sales current account, purchase current account, input invoice, output invoice, cash bank, financial statement and account balance table are clear at a glance, and the accounts are more accurate and clear.

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