Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an organization-wide computer software system used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a business from shared data stores.

Enterprise Resource Planning is the latest high end solution, information technology has lent to business application. The ERP solutions seek to streamline and integrate operation processes and information flows in the company to synergise the resources of an organisation namely men, material, money and machine through information. Initially implementation of an ERP package was possible only for very large Multi National Companies and Infrastructure Companies due to high cost involved. Today many companies in India have gone in for implementation of ERP and it is expected in the near future that 60% of the companies will be implementing one or the other ERP packages since this will become a must for gaining competitive advantage.

Most organizations across the world have realized that in a rapidly changing environment, it is impossible to create and maintain a custom designed software package which will cater to all their requirements and also be completely up-to-date. Realizing the requirement of user organizations some of the leading software companies have designed Enterprise Resource Planning software which will offer an integrated software solution to all the functions of an organisation.

Business Process Reengineering is a pre-requisite for going ahead with a powerful planning tool, ERP. An in depth BPR study has to be done before taking up ERP. Business Process Reengineering brings out deficiencies of the existing system and attempts to maximize productivity through restructuring and re-organizing the human resources as well as divisions and departments in the organisation

Harinya developed an ERP solution that can fulfil all the management needs of any size organization. Implemented in Dot Net Framework technology with ASP.Net and VB.Net, using multi-tiered design and taking advantage of today's latest and most advanced database system, SQL Server, our ERP product features the functionality like General Ledger, an Accounts Receivable System, an Accounts Payable System, an Order Entry System that supports emailing order and shipping confirmations, a Shipping Module which retrieves real-time shipping rates from UPS and FedEx over the Internet, a Contract Management System, an Inventory Control System that supports the FIFO, LIFO and Average Inventory Costing Methods and also allows the building of assemblies, a Purchasing System that allows receiving into multiple warehouses, and over 100 customizable reports in HTML & ASPX format. 

E-commerce is the online transaction of business, featuring linked computer systems of the vendor, host, and buyer. Electronic transactions involve the transfer of ownership or rights to use a good or service. E-commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. An e commerce site can be as simple as a catalog page with a phone no, or it can range all the way to a real time credit and processing site where customer can purchase downloadable goods and receive them on the spot. E-Business is the creation of new, and the redesigning of existing value chains and business processes through the application of information technology. Naturally, e-Business is more than e-commerce. It expands the scope of e-commerce to transform the company and the industry itself.

E-commerce includes retail shopping, banking, stocks and bonds trading, auctions, real estate transactions, airline booking, movie rentals—nearly anything we can imagine in the real world. Even personal services such as hair and nail salons can benefit from e-commerce by providing a website for the sale of related health and beauty products, normally available to local customers exclusively.