Warehouse glossary

ERP

An ERP (enterprise resource planning) system manages the company's processes in a single record: purchasing, sales, invoicing, accounting, costs and the inventory balance.

Also known as
enterprise resource planning · business management system

Reviewed October 29, 2026 by the Business in a Wave team

Its use in the warehouse

The ERP records the quantity and value of the company's inventory; it does not direct work on the warehouse floor. When the operation grows, a WMS executes receiving, put-away, picking and counts with scanning and confirms the executed work to the ERP, with actual quantities, lots and serial numbers. Each data element has one owner: the ERP manages and the WMS executes.

How Chainlink WMS applies it

Chainlink WMS connects directly with SAP Business One, Odoo, ERPNext, SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, as an add-on for Professional and Enterprise: products, purchase orders and sales orders arrive from the ERP, and each receipt, shipment, transfer and count adjustment returns to it. For other systems, the REST API and bulk file import are available.

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