SAP (ERP for construction)
Introduction
An enterprise resource planning (ERP system, enterprise resource planning) is the integrated management of major business processes, often in real time and mediated by software and technology. ERP is generally referred to as a category of business management software - typically a set of integrated applications - that an organization can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities. ERP systems can be on-premises or cloud-based; Cloud-based applications have grown in recent years, due to the greater efficiency derived from information being easily available from anywhere with Internet access.
An ERP should be a specialized system that allows the unification and organization of all areas, that is, be a system that allows traceability of all processes and, therefore, gives way to the planning and optimization of resources**.**.
Enterprise resource planning is a term derived from manufacturing resource planning (MRPII) and followed by material requirements planning (MRP); However, ERPs have evolved towards subscription models for the use of the service (SaaS, cloud computing).
ERP systems typically handle the company's production, logistics, distribution, inventory, shipping, invoices, and accounting in a modular manner.[1] However, enterprise resource planning or ERP software can intervene in the control of many business activities such as sales, deliveries, payments, production, inventory management, quality management, and human resource management.[2].
ERP systems are occasionally called back office as they indicate that the client "Customer (economy)" and the general public do not have access to it; Likewise, it is a system that deals directly with suppliers, not establishing a merely administrative relationship with them (SRM). Subsequently, the ERP software occupied all the spaces of the organization, absorbing the functions of the CRM. In fact, the world's leading CRM production companies were absorbed by ERP software companies in the last ten years.
ERPs were widely used in companies. Among its most common modules are manufacturing or production, storage, logistics and technological information, they also include accounting, and usually include a human resources management system, and marketing and strategic management tools.
The latest generation ERPs tend to implement in their circuits administration abstractions such as MECAF" (Method of Expression of Formalized Administrative Circuits) or FAN (Formalized Administrative Notation), which provide great flexibility to describe different circuits used in different companies. This simplifies the regionalization and adaptation of ERPs to different vertical markets.