eStone - Overview As competition increases, the need to implement smart and cost effective solutions having faster time-to-market capabilities is felt by organizations. Businesses today are on the edge of an exciting era powered by unprecedented advancement in Information Technology. Organizations are looking beyond their walls in pursuit of continuous improvement of processes to that result in increased Productivity and efficiency. The key is to build an information infrastructure that enables quick response to changing market dynamics, lower costs, reduced inventory levels, improved customer service and profitable growth.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integrates internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing Finance and Accounting, Manufacturing, Sales and Service, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application. Its purpose is to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organization and manage the connections to outside stakeholders.ERP systems can run on a variety of hardware and network configurations, typically employing a database to store and process information.
An ERP is a massive software architecture that supports the streaming and distribution of geographically scattered enterprise wide information across all the functional units of a business house. It provides the business management executives with a comprehensive overview of the complete business execution which in turn influences their decisions in a productive way.

ERP software architecture can possibly envelop a broad range of enterprise wide functions and integrate them into a single unified database repository. For instance, functions such as Manufacturing Warehouse Management ,Production and Logistics were all stand-alone software applications, generally housed with their own applications, database and network, but today, they can all work under a single umbrella – the ERP architecture.
In order for a software system to be considered an ERP solution, it must provide a wide collection of functionalities supported by features like flexibility, modularity & openness, widespread, finest business processes and global focus
eStone is an end to end Procurement based process medium which primarily aims to fit Granite and Marble industries. The Selection and implementation of ERP has two key drivers ManagingBusiness Process and Enhanced Reporting. eStone provides the functionalities that are needed for most of the Small and Medium Business organizations. eStone is designed to replace the existing practice of using excel sheet to store and analyze data and any legacy system that is currently being used. eStone provides easy data retrieval and data storagemechanisms that are built to sustain the growing business demands.