Overview of integration with ERP components

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a packaged business software system that allows a company to automate and integrate the majority of its business processes. This enables the company to share common data and practices across the entire enterprise, and to produce and access information in a real-time environment.

The Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation can integrate with an ERP system to utilize any additional functions that are available in the existing environment. The Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation can be integrated with one or more of the following components of an ERP system:

• Order Management
• Purchasing
• Inventory
• WIP
• Returns

For example, the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation can integrate with an ERP system to enable users to:

• Enter information in one system and ensure the accessibility and accuracy of the same information across the other application, if necessary, without duplication of data entry.
• Maintain the data entry and ownership at one point, the source module. Synchronize reference (common) data based on the static or dynamic nature of the data, and/or, as deemed necessary in a business environment.
• Perform the necessary business functions involving data sharing and transfer without having to be aware of the system links, the transfer mechanism and the programming details.
• Define and maintain the implementation setup of the integration to suit specific business needs. Typically, the user-definable parameters correspond to the modules installed, the active interfaces, frequency of data synchronization and real time or batch data transfer options.