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ERP系统-外文文献翻译 Enterprise resource planning System Enterprise resource planning ERP is a company-wide computer software system used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a business from shared data stores. An ERP system has a service-oriented architecture with modular hardware and software units or services that communicate on a local area network. The modular design allows a business to add or reconfigure modules perhaps from different vendors while preserving data integrity in one shared database that may be centralized or distributed. MRP vs. ERP?? Manufacturing management systems have evolved in stages over the past 30 years from a simple means of calculating materials requirements to the automation of an entire enterprise. Around 1980, over-frequent changes in sales forecasts, entailing continual readjustments in production, as well as inflexible fixed system parameters, led MRP Material Requirement Planning to evolve into a new concept?: Manufacturing Resource Planning or MRP3 and finally the generic concept Enterprise Resource Planning ERP The initials ERP originated as an extension of MRP material requirements planning; later manufacturing resource planning and CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing. It was introduced by research and analysis firm Gartner in 1990. ERP systems now attempt to cover all core functions of an enterprise, regardless of the organizations business or charter. These systems can now be found in non-manufacturing businesses, non-profit organizations and governments.To be considered an ERP system, a software package must provide the function of at least two systems. For example, a software package that provides both payroll and accounting functions could technically be considered an ERP software packageExamples of modules in an ERP which formerly would have been stand-alone applications include: Product lifecycle management, Supply chain management e.g. Purchasing, Manufacturing and Distribution, Wareh