Summary: or is integrated with a relational database system. The deployment of an ERP system can involve considerable business process analysis, employee retraining, and new work procedures. Figure 2 - History of ERP The ERP, for (Shankarnarayanan 1998), is a natural evolution after the MRPII. According to this author the natural evolution of planning systems is (Figure
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