Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) intends to provide a complete view of business by integrating accounting, human resources, supply chain management, capacity planning, production scheduling, customer relationship management, sales planning and more.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) intends to provide a complete view of business as a software application. By comparison, Materials Resource Planning (MRP) gives insight into factors that relate directly to physical production. ERP includes MRP as a subset and extends to other areas such as finance and human resources.