What is erp?

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is an enterprise information management system that mainly manages material resources, capital resources and information resources for manufacturing industry.

It is a new generation of integrated management information system developed from MRP (Material Requirements Planning), which expands the functions of MRP and its core idea is supply chain management.

It jumps out of the traditional enterprise boundary, optimizes enterprise resources from the scope of supply chain, optimizes the operation mode of modern enterprises, and embodies the market's requirements for enterprises to allocate resources reasonably. It plays an important role in improving business processes and enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises.

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In enterprises, general management mainly includes three aspects: production control (planning and manufacturing), logistics management (distribution, procurement and inventory management) and financial management (accounting and financial management). These three systems are integrated, and there are corresponding interfaces between them, which can be well integrated to manage enterprises.

In addition, it should be specially mentioned that with the strengthening of enterprises' emphasis on human resource management, more and more ERP manufacturers have incorporated human resource management into an important part of ERP system, and we will also briefly introduce this function. Here we will take a typical production enterprise as an example to introduce the functional modules of ERP.