ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. It is an integrated computer-based application that manages internal and external resources across an entire organization. ERP facilitates information flow between all business functions and departments through a centralized database. It has evolved from systems designed to assist manufacturing in the 1960s to modern integrated applications. ERP provides benefits like increased efficiency, cost reductions, accuracy, and transparency through a centralized information system.
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ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. It is an integrated computer-based application that manages internal and external resources across an entire organization. ERP facilitates information flow between all business functions and departments through a centralized database. It has evolved from systems designed to assist manufacturing in the 1960s to modern integrated applications. ERP provides benefits like increased efficiency, cost reductions, accuracy, and transparency through a centralized information system.
ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. It is an integrated computer-based application that manages internal and external resources across an entire organization. ERP facilitates information flow between all business functions and departments through a centralized database. It has evolved from systems designed to assist manufacturing in the 1960s to modern integrated applications. ERP provides benefits like increased efficiency, cost reductions, accuracy, and transparency through a centralized information system.
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ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. It is an integrated computer-based application that manages internal and external resources across an entire organization. ERP facilitates information flow between all business functions and departments through a centralized database. It has evolved from systems designed to assist manufacturing in the 1960s to modern integrated applications. ERP provides benefits like increased efficiency, cost reductions, accuracy, and transparency through a centralized information system.
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What is ERP?
Y An integrated computer based application.
Y Manages internal and external resources. Y It facilitates the flow of info between all business functions. Y It has a centralized database and utilizes a common computing platform. Y can either reside on a centralized server or be distributed across modular hardware and software units that provide "services" and communicate on a local area network Y Ohe distributed design allows a business to assemble modules from different vendors without the need for the placement of multiple copies of complex and expensive computer systems in areas which will not use their full capacity. Y Ohe evolution of the systems dates back to the year 1960 as per ERP history. Y Ohe systems in the yesteryears were designed to assist the manufacturing process. Y Ohe first software that was developed in this process happens to be MRP (material Resource Planning) in the year 1975. Y usiness houses always find great difficulty in quickly making out the required information because of the voluminous data, improper segregation, departmental arrangements and unprecedented delays. Y Ohe inconvenience was not only pinching on monetary profits but also antagonized customers who were made to wait for a long time for a small piece of data. Y ERP has come to overcome this menace.
Y It helps to integrate the data in an organization
under one common platform.
Y Ohe purpose behind is not only to ensure
transparency but also to facilitate tracking down information regarding the status of a particular order or its dispatch and so on. Y ERP helps in making the maximum use of technological advancements.
Y For instance the executive in the Sales
Department will be able to respond to a customer query immediately by making out the status of the product's delivery which would not have otherwise been possible. Y properly grasp the ERP Fundamentals, Y in order to derive the maximum outcome Y Ohe services of ERP cannot happen all on a sudden in an organization. Y Ohe work being done may require a couple of months and even years depending on issues like volume of the organization. Y Meticulous planning will definitely help to achieve ERP benefit Y Integration: Highest benefit of them all. It helps in reducing data redudancy and redudant data entry. Y Efficiency :Organizations become more efficient. Y Cost reduction : helps reduce cost. Y Less personnel : lesser no. of people are required Y Accuracy: ERP forces people to be accurate . Y Expensive Y Not very Flexible Y ERP technical architecture basically defines layout of layers of application deployment between servers and desktops, interfaces and software objects. Y ERP architecture should also should be able to absorb emerging technologies Y It should be expandable and maintainable to meet future business needs such as business process changes, merger and acquisitions, compatibility with future regulations etc. Y Mainframe Era: During, 1980s, ERP systems were running on mainframe, capable of supporting hundreds of users concurrently. Users were connecting to this monolith system through dumb terminals only to access and input data. Y Client Server: During 1990s, client server (C/S) ERP application became popular. PC became powerful and provided a better user interface ), through Graphic Users Interface (GUI). Y Server hosts central database and application programme.
Y PC Clients, provide input, request service from
server, performs display and does some processing. Y System functions are done in three logical layers 1. Presentation layer-at client PC 2. layer, executing instructions from users and transferring and receiving data from database 3. Database layer for centrally managing data
Y Application programme and database may be
hosted in a single server or in two separate servers. Y Adoption of Internet technology allows access to an ERP system from anywhere anytime, enabling new ERP functionalities like Sales Force Automation. Y Ohe concept of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) was adapted and internet browser was used to access server from client side. Y Ohis development eliminated the need of installing client program but made use of Java applets, which gets downloaded whenever a connection is made by the client, through URL. Y ERP software is typically implemented in 3-tier client-server architecture. Y Presentation tier implements the "look and feel" of an application. Y It is responsible for the presentation of data, receiving user events and controlling the user interface. Y Oiers are classifications of software by the size of the company they fit. Y O Oier 1 ERP software is software for the large enterprise. Oypically the Oier 1 customer is a company with several sites, probably geographically dispersed and in multiple companies . Y O Ohe Oier 2 market is the largest of all the tiers in terms of the number of potential customers. Y Ohey are usually just a few localized sites. Y Ohe main indication is the size of the company by revenue. Y Oier 3: Oier 3 software is designed for single site customers of under $40 million dollars. Y Ohese are companies with 5 to 30 users and have less demanding needs. Y Often these companies have just and are looking to expand their capabilities. Ohese companies tend to be the family run or small corporations. Y Ohree-tier is a clientʹserver architecture in which the user interface, functional process logic ,computer data storage and data access are developed and maintained as independent modules, most often on separate platforms. Y It was developed by John J. Donovan in Open Environment Corporation (OEC), a tools company he founded in Cambridge, MA. Y Presentation tier Y Ohe presentation tier displays information related to such services as browsing merchandise, purchasing, and shopping cart contents. Y It communicates with other tiers by outputting results to the browser/client tier and all other tiers in the network. Y Application tier (business logic, logic tier, data access tier, or middle tier) Y Ohe logic tier is pulled out from the presentation tier and, as its own layer, it controls an application͛s functionality by performing detailed processing. Y Data tier Y Ohis tier consists of database servers. Here information is stored and retrieved. Ohis tier keeps data neutral and independent from application servers or business logic. Giving data its own tier also improves scalability and performance. Y Ohe clientʹserver model of computing is a distributed application structure that partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients. Y Often clients and servers communicate over a computer network on separate hardware, but both client and server may reside in the same system. Y A server machine is a host that is running one or more server programs which share their resources with clients. Y A client does not share any of its resources, but requests a server's content or service function. Y Clients therefore initiate communication sessions with servers which await incoming requests. Y Functions such as email exchange, web access and database access, are built on the clientʹ server model. Y Users accessing banking services from their computer use a web browser client to send a request to a web server at a bank. Y Ohe clientʹserver model has become one of the central ideas of network computing. Many business applications being written today use the clientʹserver model. Y Enables the roles and responsibilities of a computing system to be distributed among several independent computers that are known to each other only through a network. . For example, it is possible to replace, repair, upgrade, or even relocate a server while its clients remain both unaware and unaffected by that change. Y All data is stored on the servers, which generally have far greater security controls than most clients. Servers can better control access and resources, to guarantee that only those clients with the appropriate permissions may access and change data. Y Since data storage is centralized, updates to that data are far easier to administer. Y Many mature clientʹserver technologies are already available which were designed to ensure security, friendliness of the user interface, and ease of use. Y It functions with multiple different clients of different capabilities. Y As the number of simultaneous client requests to a given server increases, the server can become overloaded. Y Under clientʹserver, should a critical server fail, clients͛ requests cannot be fulfilled.