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.
Motown's most successful artists in the 1970s and '80s were Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, and Lionel Ritchie and the Commodores. Gordy moved the company headquarters to Los Angeles in 1971, dabbled in motion pictures at that time, and finally sold Motown Records to MCA in 1988.