Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)AbstractERP systems are designed to make companies and businesses operate more efficiently when they don't. A company's main goal is to choose a vendor that offers them the safest and easiest way to operate efficiently and achieve their business goals. What is ERP? • “Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are software systems for business management, support areas such as planning, production, sales, marketing, distribution, accounting, finance, human resource management, project management, inventory management, service and maintenance, transportation and e-business”.( Haag, Cummings, Phillips, S, M , A (2007). Mangement Information Systems. New Yory, NY: The McGraw-Hill Company Inc..) The ERP system allows a flow strategic information across all areas within an enterprise in a consistent and productive manner.• The purpose of implementation. an ERP system in a company is when the company is not working efficiently. Look at it this way, when your body is sick, you know you have to take medicine, you just can't stand the taste. And similarly, when your business isn't running efficiently, you need to take steps to correct it. Most companies simply fear the disruption, learning, costs and inconvenience of it all. “Another way to look at or understand ERP is that cars are equipped with dashboards so the driver can get where he wants to go. Airports have control towers to make sure everything and everyone gets where they need to be. All your typical individual machines have control panels so you can make them do what they're supposed to do." (Jones, W (2006, 01). Roadmap to Fusion: Engaging Oracle Consulting on the path to your next business platform. Orcacle Corporation World Headquarters,) If you think about it, a company shouldn't have the same kind of single point of reference of control? Enterprise resource planning software provides the level of oversight and control absolutely necessary for you, as a manager or owner, to ensure that all of your resources are working towards the same goal. The hard part is choosing an ERP system that works for your business. No two manufacturers work exactly the same, and no two ERP systems work exactly the same. Therefore, it is important to research the product and supplier to ensure you select the right system for your business. You need to have a system that fully integrates all aspects of running your manufacturing business, offers advanced features and options but is intuitive and easy to use so employees can quickly grasp it, and fits the way you do business rather than forcing you to adapt to the software.