ENTERPRICE RESOURCE PLANNING

Abstract

This article shows the historical process about ERP systems. During the fourties, United States used specialist programs which it operated in great computers for manage materials resourses. These are known tecnological solutions. Ater that, in the fifties, enterprises utilised MRP solutions for control activities to varied operations about pay slip. Then, in the sixties, it apeared MRP II systems when software industry develop different aplications about contability, finances, manage, sales, logistics and others which coneccted with MRP and MRP II systems. In the eighties aplications for corporativies changed into unificated bisiness system. Finally, in the nineties, ERP solutios consolidated a unique information system, with that the information was share into differents areas, it provides only one coneccted interfase and it has been important for the next years for the life companies. This system shows the past, present and future in the process, brand, tendencies, product stages and facilitates the proyection with models of plans.
The implantation of a ERP system can be done during six months. After that, it can be improved and adapted into each enterprices in particularuty. This stage is the most complicated due the stable and dominated implantation of ERP systems.