In today’s economic environment of constrained IT budgets, manufacturing companies are constantly looking for ways to reduce their long-term total cost of ownership for enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP). ERP systems integrate all business operations of a manufacturing industry including design, quotation, sales order, material requisition plan, purchasing, production planning, manufacturing process control, inventory control, shipping, and logistics.

In this e-guide, readers will learn more about the basics of ERP and how to reduce maintenance and support costs for these systems.