ERP is a business software that helps companies to automate their business operations. The whole essence of an ERP solution is to model or represent the physical structure, organizational structure and business processes or workflows of a company in an Information Technology system. It is an electronic soft copy of your physical hard copied business. It represents the companies departments, people, processes, locations, structures in the IT system. This helps alleviate the stress from the companies daily operational work, by automating the different parts of the business, thereby reducing mistakes that can be found on a traditional manual system.

A ERP software is not a solution, but part of a solution. To provide a full solution for your business. What makes up a full solution includes;
- Business Analysis of the current business process/workflow and their structure for the company
- Configuration of the ERP system to match the companies business processes
- Based on the business analysis, Customization can be done to enhance the functionality of the ERP system to match the companies business processes
- User Acceptance Test
- Training
- Go-Live

If theses are not properly done by an experienced consultant, then the project is likely to fail. So you now know what ERP is, and what it takes to implement an ERP system.