Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (15th Edition)
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (15th Edition)
15th Edition
ISBN: 9780134639710
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 9, Problem 18MLM
Program Plan Intro

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP):

  • ERP is nothing but a planning that joins various departments and its functions all over an organization into a single information system.
  • This planning helps the employees to make their decisions on viewing the wide enterprise information about various business operations.
  • The main motive is to provide common database that supports various functions used by different business departments.
  • For example, consider the department named sales and accounting that depend on the same data for their own needs.

Importance of ERP:

  • One would like to install ERP system than CRM and SCM because ERP is a method of using computer technology that links various departments like sales, inventory, accounting, and human resource.
  • It is proposed to ease information sharing, business planning and decision making on a company wide basis.

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