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This is Burcu from Gartner. I recently worked with editors to update the main Gartner article and two related articles: Gartner hype cycle and Magic Quadrant. I also have a pending request at the Research Board Talk page].

I noticed that this article references Gartner in the Origin section's first paragraph. The passage in question has several citation issues, though. The second reference for the first sentence has an "independent source needed" warning. The second sentence lacks a citation at the end. And the cited source for the third sentence misspells the author's name and doesn't include a link.

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Gartner first used the acronym ERP in the 1990s.^[1]^[2] The term captured a functional extension of two manufacturing-based concepts, material requirements planning (MRP) and manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), as well as computer-integrated manufacturing.^[3] Without replacing these terms, ERP came to represent a larger whole that reflected the evolution of application integration beyond manufacturing.^[4]

In addition to updating the citations, I also lightly reworded the first two sentences to improve readability. Because I work for Gartner I won't make this revision myself. Please let me know what you think. BurcuAtGartner (talk) 19:19, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

^ InfoWorld, Heather Harreld (August 27, 2001). "Extended ERP technology reborn in B2B". Retrieved July 20, 2016.
^ Savin, Jerald (2025). "Preface - IT Auditing". IT Auditing: The Practitioner's Guide to Reliable Information Automation. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1040259774. Automation was clearly part of the business by the 1960s and 1970s and was fully on this path before Gartner coined the acronym ERP in the 1990s. ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning, focused on the capabilities of these systems and their integration.
^ "History, Features, Challenges, and Critical Success Factors of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in the Era of Industry 4.0". European Scientific Journal. 19 (6). February 28, 2023. Retrieved June 2, 2025. Different software that contributed to the development of the existing ERP is found to be Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII), and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
^ Shields, Murrell G. (2005). E-Business and ERP: Rapid Implementation and Project Planning. Wiley. p. 9. Even the term ERP is a successor to the manufacturing term MRP (materials requirement planning) and came into use when vendors started to fill out the suite of applications provided beyond the manufacturing areas.

[1] InfoWorld, Heather Harreld (August 27, 2001). "Extended ERP technology reborn in B2B". Retrieved July 20, 2016.

[Savin-2] Savin, Jerald (2025). "Preface - IT Auditing". IT Auditing: The Practitioner's Guide to Reliable Information Automation. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1040259774. Automation was clearly part of the business by the 1960s and 1970s and was fully on this path before Gartner coined the acronym ERP in the 1990s. ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning, focused on the capabilities of these systems and their integration.

[ESJ-3] "History, Features, Challenges, and Critical Success Factors of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in the Era of Industry 4.0". European Scientific Journal. 19 (6). February 28, 2023. Retrieved June 2, 2025. Different software that contributed to the development of the existing ERP is found to be Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII), and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)

[4] Shields, Murrell G. (2005). E-Business and ERP: Rapid Implementation and Project Planning. Wiley. p. 9. Even the term ERP is a successor to the manufacturing term MRP (materials requirement planning) and came into use when vendors started to fill out the suite of applications provided beyond the manufacturing areas.

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