Manufacturing is defined as the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale by using equipments and processing systems. In order to manage manufacturing processes, a software-based production, purchasing, and shipment planning and inventory control system called Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP), has been developed. From this system, Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), a method for the effective planning of all resources of a manufacturing company, has been derived. And from MRP II, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has evolved.

ERP, by means of ERP software, spreads its tasks to all types of business organization and improves the business processes including strategic planning, management control and operational control. It also operates across functional departments and their particular activities.

While ERP deals with both manufacturing and non-manufacturing companies, a kind of ERP software is intentionally made for manufacturing industries. It is called manufacturing ERP software. Combining MRP and ERP, it has a more established device and application in these industrial sectors than ERP software. It has integrated workflow processes that are designed specifically to maximize the use of the manufacturer