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Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)

In front of fierce competition for survival and expansion, companies shared the same ambitions of optimizing every step of their network of business processes by combining all activities, processes, and strategies into a single central computerized system called Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). It includes all the business functions like planning, purchasing, capacity planning, production, quality control, inspection, maintenance, selling and distribution, finance, procurement, marketing, etc. The organization's entire data is stored in a unique database known as the manufacturing or central database (Addo-Tenkorang & Helo, 2011). ERP systems are built upon the concept of modules. Therefore, In addition to the Client Relationship Management (CRM) module which mission is to develop relationships with the organization's customers and the Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) module which support the company-supplier relationship during its entire lifecycle (Lang et al., 2002) (Huiping, 2009), different modules in the ERP ecosystem exist to address different needs for the organization, (e.g. MRP, WMS, etc.). Additionally, other functional modules can be implemented in ERP systems (e.g. document management module) to support this architecture.