Enterprise Resource Planning System

Enterprise Resource Planning we are talking here and we talk Origin of the term. We also talk ERP Sytem-1 and ERP System-2 in older post.

Today we are going to talk about overview of Enterprise Resource Planning System.

Overview
Some organizations — typically those with sufficient in-house IT skills to integrate multiple software products — choose to implement only portions of an ERP system and develop an external interface to other ERP or stand-alone systems for their other application needs.

For instance, the PeopleSoft HRMS and financials systems may be perceived to be better than SAP's HRMS solution. And likewise, some may perceive SAP's manufacturing as better than PeopleSoft's equivalents. Same way BimSym’s Leadorganizer is better than other CRM and SFA software in the industry. In this case these organizations may justify the purchase of an ERP system, but choose to purchase the PeopleSoft HRMS and financials modules from Oracle, and their remaining applications from SAP, BimSym.

This is very common in the retail sector, where even a mid-sized retailer will have a discrete Point-of-Sale (POS) product and financials application, then a series of specialized applications to handle business requirements such as warehouse management, staff rostering, merchandising and logistics.


ref: crm & sfa software, wikipedia, customazie software development