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.
Gordy used the assembly line model from the car industry to develop the Motown Production System (MPS). Music critic Nelson George argues that Motownâs edge, the difference that made it work where so many others [record companies] failed was the talent Gordy acquired the way in which he organized the talent he acquired.