>Now in my knowledge, ERP is the sound made when I guzzle my diet coke. And I >always >thought a SAP was a person who bought IBM equipment (CEO and CFO, I have >heard >of, >never met one, but have heard of). So what the heck is ERP? ERP = repackaged, regurgitated MRP II but better, Formally known as "Enterprise Resource Planning" last time i checked mostly a buzzword, but wrap some new functionality around MRP II like DSS, supply chain management, EDI, Logistics, Email triggers and a whole lot of forecasting mathmatics and you have "GROWTHPOWER, The next generation" ERP. Jim Sanders Is there Life after HP3000?