What is 'Enterprise Resource Planning - ERP'. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a process by which a company (often a manufacturer) manages and integrates the important parts of its business. An ERP management information system integrates areas such as planning, purchasing, inventory, sales, marketing, finance and human resources.
Berry Gordy's Motown Records. Founder and owner of the Tamla-Motown family record labels, Berry Gordy, Jr., established Motown Records as one of the most important independent labels in the early '60s.
They also put together the Rayber Voices, a studio group that backed most of Motown's first acts early recordings. In late 1957, Gordy had his first success with Reet Petite which was recorded by Detroit born Jackie Wilson who had at one time replaced Clyde McPhatter as lead singer of the Dominoes.