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.
The fact that Gordy started Motown out of his home is more than a quaint historical footnote. Doing that today in Detroitâs residential areas would violate the cityâs repressive ban on home-based businessesâa sad comment on how stifling Detroitâs regulations and taxes have become since the 1950s.