ERP

In today's business environment, which is super competitive, firms feel the need to have new business goals in order to fulfill their inner visions. One of the most important things, in order to achieve those objectives is the support of the IT.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software was created to offer an integrated IT solution. A software like that should help in creating a compatibility between the task itself and the technological systems in the firm.
Today, we can find ERP in many companies as a major investment but many times, managers are not provided with good guidance and not taking full advantage of the ERP potential.
The question whether companies should adapt to ERP or vice versa is not so easy and depends allot on the company itself. Personally I believe it should be integrated into the company rather than being adapted. ERP by nature should serve the company's needs and therefore should be used by it, even and perhaps because it brings change to the company.

That was rather vague opinion of me, after all, today was the first time I heard about this term...hopefully that after tomorrow's session I will be a bit smarter.

Yours
YV