JAGGAER Blog The Journey of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in Manufacturing

A Manufacturer's Guide to the Evolution of ERPs Let's start by declaring an interest. Most JAGGAER installations in the manufacturing industry specifically, and in product-centric businesses in general, involve integration with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system of one sort or another. So, we have skin in this game! If you have an efficient ERP system, information can flow freely between your source-to-pay applications and the company's central IT infrastructure. Now let's declare a disinterest. We are ERP-agnostic. That means we will integrate with whatever ERP system you have already installed, are in the process of installing, or plan to install in the future. In this article, we discuss most of the leading ERP systems. Some will not suit your organization, but if you choose wisely, you will gain tremendous competitive advantages from your ERP system. Origins of ERP ERP is a software system that helps organizations streamline their core business processes. ERP's roots are most certainly in manufacturing. The term enterprise resource planning originated in the early 1990s and is credited to the research firm Gartner Group. It evolved from material requirements planning (MRP) and later manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), which were already being used in manufacturing industries [...]