Welcome to A to Z tutorial on Oracle Applications
  
Oracle Applications is an ERP software. Lets first understand what ERP is.
  
ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning.
  
ERP systems evolved from the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems of the late 1970s.
  
1980s was the era for Total Quality Management (TQM), Just in Time (JIT) manufacturing, and MRP II.
  
1990s was the era for Business Process Reengineering (BPR, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance.
  
Today ERP systems eats up the lion share of companies' budgets.
  
A full feature ERP system includes accounting, distribution, procurement, manufacturing, customer relationship, and human resource modules.
  
Oracle and SAP are the major vendors for ERP systems. SAP has the largest market share and Oracle has the second largest.
  
This tutorial is about implementing and using Oracle Corporation's ERP Applications.
  
After completing this tutorial you will be able to manage your software implementation project, configure the system, and run functional tests in a complete conference room pilot.