What is the difference between the (ERP) system and (SharePoint) system and which one is better?

In general; ERP systems includes systems like Financials, Human Resource, Manufacturing, QA, ...etc where SharePoint is a system to manage digital assets like documents, images, and multimedia files. Each one serves a need. While it is better to keep everything inside an ERP system; you still need somthing to manage other users scattered data.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool a company can use to store and manage data from every stage of business, including:•Product planning, cost and development•Manufacturing•Marketing and sales•Inventory management•Shipping and payment

e.g. SAP

SharePoint is a platform can be used to provide intranet portals, document & file management, collaboration, social networks, extranets, websites, enterprise search, and business intelligence. And I would say SharePoint would be an extremely bad choice upon which to build an ERP product/tool.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a terminology which represents the integrated bussiness management softwares that using a single common database and share the data accross all various department including Finance, production, procurement, HR etc. A company uses ERP Softwares to manage their all bussiness processes technically, manage their data of every stage and to get a real time reports that generates from the data of various department or branches. following are some leading ERP Softwares.

1. SAP

2. Oralce e-bussiness suite

Sharepoint is a tools which is developed by microsoft to enahnce the company's collaboration, document management, social networking, document flow and web applicaiton need or requirments. Sharepoint is totally integrated with other microsoft's software specially microsoft office, active directory etc. sahrepoint has capability to integrate with ERPs to enhance and fullfill the companies requirements.

An ERP system is a tool to plan the enterprise resources to effectively achieve its goals while Sharepoint is a tool to facilitate colaborative efforts between particiapnts which enhance the effectiveness of thier communictations. Every system have its own purpose and niether of them is better than the other. Effective use of both systems together will enhance the organization's performance and support its competitiveness.

sharepoint is content management and publishing platform. In the case of ERP, it is a business end to end system for managing all the interanl busnisee process in an enterprise.

Well.. you have got the typical answer for difference between ERP and SharePoint.

However, you can build ERP with the SharePoint framework (this will be a nightmare if you are using SharePoint2007). From SharePoint2010, its bit easy and2013, it is easier.

Now choosing between a full fledge ERP and building ERP from scratch on SharePoint is a crucial decision to make. You may also consider to integrate an ERP with SharePoint (Read this for details:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2010/may10/05-27msdynamicsbusproductivity.aspx

http://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/crmasaprocess/archive/2013/10/27/integration-between-dynamics-crm-erp-and-sharepoint.aspx)

There are many points you should consider. A few are as below:

1) Is it DIRECTLY fitting into your business model or you have to customise it. (Note: customisation leads to more efforts, cost and post implementation support)

2) How comfortable people of your organisation to work on such application? Can those be trained easily?

3) Is it expandable to your  increasing needs in future?

4) Will it support your current technical infrastructure (i.e servers, workstations, pcs, laptops, tablets, smartphones etc) or you need to change that?

5) The cost of buying an ERP or building it with SharePoint?

6) Post implementation Support and its cost?

7) Cost of training the people for using it?

I know this does not asnwer the question. I hope this will help you getting asnwer for the question.

An ERP system is a tool to plan the enterprise resources to effectively achieve its goals while Sharepoint is a tool to facilitate colaborative efforts between particiapnts which enhance the effectiveness of thier communictations

There is a huge difference between ERP and SharePoint;

ERP system is a business management suite of integrated applications that a company can use to collect collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities.

whereas SharePoint is a microsoft platform for collaboration, document sharing, intranet portals, extranet portals, web development, business intelligence. It also has system integration, process integration, and workflow automation capabilities.

I think SharePoint better be the option to use as compare to ERP system, because you can use ERP in SharePoint but not vice versa.

In simple terms: 

ERP = enterprise resource planning, which is a type of information management system for businesses. It is usually a collection of applications and systems on an integrated platform to store and utilise all aspects of business information (finance, HR, marketing, shipping, etc.)

SharePoint = Microsoft's intranet software that facilitates document management, collaboration between departments, business reporting and workflows.

The question should not be "which one is better". Rather, one should ask "which do I need to solve my current problem(s)", as they serve different purposes. Many companies are running an ERP system (like SAP) and SharePoint simultaneously.

By working with both solutions beside CRM i can summarize for you the differences between the3

ERP: used to manage company financials, HR , Production , inventory ..etc . it is used to effectivly manage all company business resourses to make them act as one coordinated system acts from prouction till sales and after sales.

CRM:used to maintain the relationship between the company and the customer whether you are ine the marketing phase and attrackting them through compaigns or when the customer become your customer.

CRM tracks all customer's activities to ensure its well served through phone calls,complains,orders statuses ...

CRM also gives the managerial level a good upper look for Marketing and Sales performance.

Sharepoint: mainly used as internal portal for the internal users of the company , where you can manage files , surveys , social data , shedules and publish feeds to help and enhance users digital usage of resources

i think the3 major solutoins is all what a company needs to have for each area but there is no "which better" in this , it is all about what area you want to implement that defines which tool you want to implement

For small and medium-sized companies I prefer Share point.

Advantages of SharePoint:

1. You can build  Mini ERP Using  Share Point.You can Build reports in Share point ( Which is called performance point) You can link reports to any data base. (ERP , Accounting system , HR programs and Share point lists  )
2. Can store data files ( Word , Excel, and PDF etc....) within the SharePoint system.
3. You can link share point with the rest of the family of Microsoft programs .... Excel, Access , Outlook , microsoft Exchange.
4. For medium-sized companies ... It may be less costly to  build mini ERP system using share point other than using an ERP System