IC to ERP

Posted by Shinu A K on January 2nd, 2020

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is basically a system for business management. Evolution of ERP system started from 1960s. At that time it was named as Inventory Control Packages (IC).

In the 70’s IC got further developed to Material Requirement Planning (MRP). It was used to calculate the meterials & elements needed in product manufacturing. MRP later emerged to Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) in the 80's.

The much widely used ERP system got developed during the 90’s ie the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Later on on the 2000’s Extended ERP got spread.

Overview of ERP development:

1960 — Inventory Control Packages (IC)

1970 — Material Requirement Planning (MRP)

1980 — Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)

1990 — Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

2000 — Extended ERP

Odoo, an open source Enterprise resource planning software is one of the fastest growing ERP solution in the market. The key elements of an erp software like Human resource, customer relationship management, business, supply chain management, inventory & financial management has been sucessfully integrated in Odoo.

Odoo/Open ERP is an open source Enterprise Resource Planning Software. You can customize this software according to your company needs. More over, it has almost all the modules needed for an organization.

Odoo Modules enhances the functionality of an Odoo ERP Software. If you are looking for additional functionality in Odoo, you can easily add it from Odoo App Store. You can find numerous apps which will suite your requirement at the App Store

Odoo Enterprise comes with the following Core apps:

Website Builder, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Inventory, Invoicing, Manufacturing, Sales, Accounting, E-commerce, Helpdesk, POS, Appraisal, Notes, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Projects Quality, Purchase, Employees, Attendances, Recruitment, Expenses, Dashboards, Contacts, Documents, Leaves, Internet of Things, Messaging, Marketing Automation, Forecast, Subscriptions, Signature, Barcode, Timesheets, VOIP, Odoo Studio, Website Live Chat, Surveys, Email Marketing, Lunch, Maintenance, Calendar, Appointments, Blogs, Online Jobs, Slides, Forum, Fleet Management, Events, Live Chat and Repairs.

Looking for any Odoo ERP Related Services?

Odoo Integration Services: Confianz Global can help you with your odoo integration requirements like a new API integration with a 3rd party app to increase the functionality and much more.

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