Overview of enterprise wide software solution – evolution, concept, difference between ERP and traditional information system, overview of the ERP package – ERP market – players and characteristics. technical architecture of ERP systems – distributed computing – client server systems – concept of business objects – distributed object – computing architecture – support for data mining and warehousing. Functional architecture – salient features functional modules of ERP – marketing, finance, human resources, production and operations – comparisons of ERP packages. Implementing ERP systems – business process reengineering using ERP- business process modeling – framework for ERP implementation – extending the scope of ERP through supply chain management and CRM.