ERP

According to the business dictionary Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon (in German), an ERP system supports all the business processes that run in a company. It is made up of modules for areas such as procurement, production, sales, asset management, human resources, and finance and accounting, all linked through a shared database. Newer systems can also manage and analyse processes outside the company.

The same dictionary has a separate entry for a related idea, the merchandise management system. It describes this as software that models the steps goods go through and handles all the data that accompanies them for a defined purpose. The dictionary places it in retail and wholesale. A warehouse management system WMS WMS stands for warehouse management system; according to the short description of VDI 3601, its task is to manage and optimise a company's internal storage and transport systems. Read in the glossary → (WMS) has its own entry in this glossary.

In our view, ERP and warehouse management systems handle the core processes reliably, but they are designed for standard cases. Where a workflow falls outside those cases, we build bespoke software alongside the ERP instead of rebuilding the ERP itself. This applies to SAP SAP SAP is a software company whose business software includes enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems; an SAP landscape is the set of SAP systems a company runs. as much as to any other system. In e-commerce we connect the ERP to the shop, and where keeping the two in step follows fixed rules, no AI agent AI agent An AI agent is a software system, built on a large language model, that carries out actions on its own and uses interfaces to other programs to reach its goal. Read in the glossary → is needed.