ERP: enterprise resource planning English version. ERP was first proposed by Gartner Group Consulting Company in the United States in 1993. As the most advanced enterprise management mode in the world, it not only embodies the most advanced enterprise management theory in the world, but also provides the best solution for enterprise information integration. It unifies the logistics, people flow, capital flow and information flow of an enterprise for management, so as to make maximum use of the existing resources of the enterprise and maximize the economic benefits of the enterprise. Its main purpose is to comprehensively balance and optimize the management of comprehensive resources such as people, finance, materials, information, time and space owned by enterprises, coordinate the management departments of enterprises, carry out business activities around market orientation, improve the core competitiveness of enterprises, and thus obtain the best economic benefits. So ERP is first of all a software and a management tool. IT is a combination of IT technology and management ideas, that is, advanced management ideas use computers to achieve the management goals of enterprises.