# ORM vs. MRP/ERP

## Manufacturing Desktop

## 1,000’s of Items

## Scheduled Purchases

## Departmental Approvals

## Bill-of-Materials Driven

## Client-Server Application

## 2nd Largest Expense

## Largely Optimized

MRP/ERP

ORM

Everyone’s Desktop

100,000’s of Items

Random Purchases

Corporate-Wide Approvals

Supplier-Catalog Driven

Network Application

Largest Expense

Ignored, Until Now

- ## Vast Differences

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