Why do you call ERP as a software while its not a software!?

There’s a lot of sloppy terminology flying around today in a business press and one misnomer is to label enterprise wide transaction processing software systems as ERP. These software packages support effective resource planning and make much of it feasible, but they don’t truly do it. Plus these packages contain many business processes other than resource planning.

Therefore we need to trot out another acronym that does refer to software:ES. This stands for Enterprise Systems or Enterprise Software.ES may be described as “packages of computer applications that support many, even most, aspects of a company’s information needs.”

That makes sense to us. Now for another distinction:Not all ERP business functions are contained in the typical Enterprise Software suite.Similarly, the typical ES contains software support for business processes that are not a part of ERP.

ERP processes not a part of a typical ES : Sales forecasting, Sales and operations planning, Advance planning systems, Supplier rating systems , Performance metrics

Non ERP processes found in a typical ES : Account receivable, Accounts payable, General ledger, Cash management, CRM, Human resources, Data warehousing.

ERP processes found in a typical ES : Master production scheduling, Rough cut capacity planning, Materials requirements planning, Capacity requirements planning, Distribution requirements planning, Customer old entry and promising.