Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a term used to describe a type of software package used in large, complex organizations. ERP combines functions such as accounting, payroll and human resources with operational systems that track customers, orders and manufacturing tasks.
Every department of an enterprise are related with each other. The performance of one department will influence the remaining. ERP is used to coordinate the performance of each department. Earlier, the situation was that for every department had separate application that structured only for a particular task, which is not interconnected with each other. As a result, that made difficult for other departments to access the required data. These problems is solved by the Enterprise resource planning (ERP). It is considered as one of the main advantages of ERP which makes it distinct. It maintains vehicles tacking, CRM, Quotations, Sales, HR, Purchase, Accounts, payroll, trip scheduling, Expenses, projects, costing, assets management , document control at a single place.