ERP it"s a software solution that address the enterprise needs by taking the process view of an organization to meet the organizational goals tightly integrating all functions of an enterprise. 

What is ERP? 

• Facilitates Company wide integrated information systems covering all functional areas.
• Performance core corporate activities and increases customer service augmenting corporate image. 

What does ERP integrate? 

• Database
• Applications
• Interfaces
• Tools
• BPR

Why ERP? 

• Complete integration of system across the department in a company as well as across the enterprise as a whole.
• Only solution for a better project management
• Better costumer services
• Automatic introduction of latest practice
• Expertise database. 

What drives ERP? 

Business 

• Consumer satisfaction
• Business development new areas products and services
• Ability o face competition
• Efficient process required to push the company o top gear 

 IT 

• Present software does not meet business needs
• Legacy systems difficult to maintain, Y2K problem, Euro efficiency
• Obsolete hardware/software difficult to mention

Problems Tackled by ERP Systems 

• Material Shortages

• Productivity enhancement

• Customer service

• Cash Management

• Inventory problems

• Quality problems 

A software purchase is designed to manage all the business processes that occur in a corporation and simultaneously manages the processes in sales, marketing, human resource, manufacturing and accounting. One such example is SAP. Because it is so vast and all-encompassing, SAP goes far beyond being just a simple piece of software. SAP not only manages all of the above stated functions, it also manages the widest area of business domains .It is the first 3 tier architecture client server and it was the first to introduce true record (row) level lockup in a database operation.