ERP packages differ from traditional software packages most obviously in that they provide a wide range of functionality within a common architecture. Thus, they subsume many of the transaction processing applications that a typical company would have in its applications portfolio: accounting applications, sales order entry programs, inventory management and production scheduling applications, distribution programs, etc. These packages are said to be integrated, because the applications share a common database, and transaction data can flow seamlessly from one "module" to the next, without rekeying or software interfaces thereby eliminating problems that plague companies with unintegrated, legacy applications systems.
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