Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is a system of enterprise applications designed to integrate and manage business functions related to technology, human resources and services. ERP systems are used to create a central database to manage details related to product planning development, manufacturing, transportation, inventory, sales, marketing, and personnel. Small to midsize businesses (SMBs), or small and medium enterprises (SMEs), are independent, non-subsidiary companies. An SMB typically employees up to 500 people. As business and data management for every industrial sector has become increasingly ubiquitous and necessary, the days of SMBs running their business by handwritten ledger have, by and large, gone the way of the rotary phone and the videotape cassette.…