Top ERP vendors, Oracle, SAP, Baan, PeopleSoft, MRP is responsible for material management

The development process from the ERP point of view, when industry began using information technology to information management, the manufacturing sector  (Material Planning, MRP) is the use of information systems, production operations control and inventory management, MRP can calculate the Production process center stage where every spare parts and raw materials to support the procurement and production of two pieces of work, this When, MRP is only responsible for material management. The 1980s, Manufacturing Resource Planning (Manufacturing Resource Planning, MRP II) include the financial management functions, however, stressed that it is still the cost of production and Control. By the 1990s, ERP system will integrate the production, finance, human resources, sales, distribution, etc. Business process really the integration of enterprise resources. In the 21st century, businesses must Should be effected through the supply chain management together with the above the following tour companies operate, while the ERP system can provide the necessary supply chain management Information, so they have a "extended enterprise resource planning" (Extended ERP, EERP) concept. ERP The birth of the system to solve the traditional information systems developed independently of information derived from the operation of the inability of the problem, Business process and information technology closely integrated in a play, this is the traditional MRP and MRP II lacks the ability to (Snyder, 1999). ERP system emphasizes the best example of (Best Practice), can help to improve the Internal processes to help enterprises enhance their competitiveness.