ERP Business Model Paper

Before examining the aspects of Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, it may be necessary to describe exactly what it is, or rather is meant to do, and how it most commonly used.
As the name implies, ERP is a software system that helps the planning, tracking, and usage of resources throughout an enterprise base organization. However, it really doesn't live up to its acronym in that it doesn't do much in the way of true planning, and in most cases such a large software package is more of a nightmare than a resource. Yet the enterprise part of the acronym is ERP's true ambition in that it attempts to integrate all departments and functions across a company onto a single computer system that can serve all those different departments' particular needs. (Koch, 2002)
Building a single enterprise-wide software system that serves the needs of people in finance as well as it does the people in human resources and down into the production facilities, is to say the least ...