Editing Enterprise resource planning (section)

==Origin==
The Gartner Group first used the [[acronym and initialism|acronym]] ERP in the 1990s<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2583660/e-commerce/extended-erp-technology-reborn-in-b2b.html|title=Extended ERP technology reborn in B2B|last=InfoWorld|first=Heather Harreld|date=August 27, 2001|access-date=July 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>"A Vision of Next Generation MRP II", Scenario S-300-339, Gartner Group, April 12, 1990{{Third-party inline|date=April 2015}}</ref> to include the capabilities of [[material requirements planning]] (MRP), and the later [[manufacturing resource planning]] (MRP II),<ref>{{cite web
|last= Anderegg |first= Travis |title= MRP/MRPII/ERP/ERM&nbsp;— Confusing Terms and Definitions for a Murkey Alphabet Soup |url= http://wiki.wlug.org.nz/EnterpriseSpeak |access-date= September 23, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.erp.com/component/content/article/324-erp-archive/4407-erp.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710200209/http://www.erp.com/component/content/article/324-erp-archive/4407-erp.html|archive-date=July 10, 2011|title= ERP|access-date=October 7, 2009}}</ref> as well as [[computer-integrated manufacturing]]. Without replacing these terms, ERP came to represent a larger whole that reflected the evolution of application integration beyond manufacturing.<ref>{{cite book |last= Sheilds |first=Mureell G. |title=E-Business and ERP: Rapid Implementation and Project Planning |year=2005 |publisher=John Wiley and Sons, Inc. |page=9}}</ref>

Not all ERP packages are developed from a manufacturing core; ERP vendors variously began assembling their packages with finance-and-accounting, [[Maintenance, repair and operations|maintenance]], and human-resource components. By the mid-1990s ERP systems addressed all core enterprise functions. Governments and non–profit organizations also began to use ERP systems.<ref>{{cite conference |first=SI |last=Chang |author2=Guy Gable |author3= Errol Smythe |author4= Greg Timbrell  |conference= International Conference on Information Systems |title= A Delphi examination of public sector ERP implementation issues |pages= 494–500 |publisher= [[Association for Information Systems]] |year= 2000 |location= Atlanta |url= http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359640.359793|access-date= September 9, 2008 }}</ref> An "ERP system selection methodology" is a formal process for selecting an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Existing methodologies include: Kuiper's funnel method, Dobrin's three-dimensional (3D) web-based decision support tool, and the Clarkston Potomac methodology.<ref>{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlAeqOOZ6WUC&pg=PA94 |title=The enterprise resource planning decade |author=Frédéric Adam, David Sammon |page=94|year=2004|publisher=Idea Group Inc (IGI) |isbn=978-1-59140-262-6}}</ref>