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Most organisations realise the potential of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
The purpose of this article is to provide a high-level conceptual framework that will assist in understanding what ERP is and how to go about implementing it. It is important for general and project managers to understand what ERP is and what the impact is on the organisation when implementing an ERP system. Since it is a high-level conceptual model, it will be used by middle to top management as well as project managers that need to implement an ERP system. ERP system will be explained by dividing it into four components