===== Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) =====
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**Enterprise resource planning (ERP)** is a method of efficiently utilizing people, hardware and software to increase productivity and profit, thus simplifying a company’s business processes. ERP may include many software applications or a single (but more complex) software package that smoothly disseminates data required by two or more unique business departments.

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