What Are ERP Systems? Enterprise Resource Planning Explained
An ERP system runs core business processes on one shared database, so finance, inventory, purchasing, sales, manufacturing and HR all read and write the same records. That sentence is the definition worth quoting, because every other detail about ERP software is a variation on it: where the database sits, who administers it, and how much of the business you move inside it. The practical version is shorter. An ERP system is the company's single ledger of what it owns, owes, sold and shipped - plus the workflows attached to each of those facts. A warehouse pick confirms, the invoice drafts, [...]









