ERP .com is the gathering point for ERP professionals, services and software. The site was developed by ERP professionals to get valuable information, product reviews, job and sales leads and industry thought leadership. The power of your business contacts, network, and relevant ERP industry information is critical to your success and ERP.com is designed to help maximize your career and business.

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- Get user reviews of all the ERP software products available on the market including on-premise software applications, SaaS (Software as a Service) products, and SOD (Software on Demand)solutions!

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Enterprise Resource Planning as the name suggests is enterprise systems technology that encompases every business process within large and small businesses including Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Accounting, Projects, Human Resources, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). ERP.com is focused on bridging information and tools within the widespread ERP community.

The site provides a social networking vehicle to practitioners and vendors to share ideas and ask questions to ERP professionals and get information, review software and hardware solutions, and social network for business leads. Consultants and practitioners can post whitepapers, tips and tools, and answers to questions and get recognized by ERP targeted clients and employers for sales and job opportunities.

Based in Los Angeles, California, ERP.com was founded in early 2009 by former entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 executives and ERP practitioners. It is a professional community site focused on offering the most up to date and relevant information on enterprise resource planning and a forum for ERP professionals and businesses to connect with each other .

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What is ERP- Enterprise Resource Planning?

What is ERP? is a common question even with ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning practitioners, this article goes over the evoluiton of the term and what an ERP system is intended to do for your organization.

ERP which is an acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning has evolved from the large, enterprise-wide software development movement over the last thirty five years.  The acronym ERP actually evolved from another acronym MRP, short for Material Requirement Planning or in some cases, Manufacturing Resource Planning. 

MRP originated in the early 80’s as a term that encapsulated the calculation of the entire materials requirement for a large company or enterprise.  As companies moved to JIT, or just in time, inventory planning, and sales forecast became more dynamic, moving for annual forecasts to monthly and even weekly forecasts, demand for a new flexible system was required to manage company wide operations planning.

The term Enterprise Resource Planning was coined by the large tech analysts and research firms of the 80’s whose meaning as the name suggests, is a company-wide software solution that links all major functions and departments of an enterprise, regardless of industry, business model or size.  Technically speaking, at least two departments or systems must be bridged together in order to be an ERP solution such as accounting, finance, HR, manufacturing, inventory, information systems, sales and administration.

Depending on the IT resources within a organization, a company may chose to integrate components or modules of one ERP system and bridge it together with another ERP system that is being used for different departments within an organization.  Ideally, however, a company using only one ERP software solution for its entire company from a single database would be considered the optimal goal of ERP software developers and vendors to strive for.

A decade later in the demand for ERP systems really heated up in preparation for the Y2K legacy system scramble as companies raced to prepare for the impact the year 2000 would have on current systems with digital numbers that would turnover to double zeros after the year 1999.  The industry as would be expected cooled down after year 2000 as companies ramped up in the late 90’s to have systems in place for the turn of the century.

Before the vision of ERP systems, each department within an organization pretty much ran as a stand-alone entity, each having its own computer system.   Sales, marketing, HR, accounting, manufacturing, inventory and finance each had their own separate database and computer system.  Compiling consolidated financials, budgets and annual forecasts required a massive effort to tie in all of the numbers and input from each department.

Because of the integration of multiple departments and compounded with the integration of one or more legacy systems within an organization, the implementation of an ERP system can be quite involved and is not something a company should take on without considerable preparation and business process analysis of where the company currently is and where to company wants to go both short term and long term. 

 

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