A Practical Beginner's Guide to ERP

ERP is about understanding how purchasing, goods receipt, invoicing, delivery, sales, and collection flow into inventory quantity and value, accounting entries, and receivables/payables.

Using a snack company that handles potato-chip ingredients, the guide shows how logistics and accounting are linked in real time with data updated at the same moment.

It emphasizes a process-first view of ERP, which makes the connections between purchasing, inventory, and accounting, as well as journal entry creation, easier to grasp.

The guide also mentions the shift from SAP ECC to S/4HANA and the growing use of AI, making it useful for system transitions and error handling.