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Single ERP VS muttiple Application or Systems

what is modern description of  single ERP or single ERP with integrated multiple applications
with my experience most of the ERP will not cover the finance and some other add hoc requirements of business units . is that wrong to have more than 15 applications in the business without having single ERP ? coz it is difficult to have one ERP with our business requirement in single ERP . so that I want to get the others experience about  having one core ERP with multiple integrated software system  working rather getting one application ERP  . some are talking about one ERP for all the business needs and I did not seen any product such
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Regretfully I am not clear on what you're asking, when you speak of core vs. application ERP choices. You also seem to put your experience over that of others.

Let's see if this helps: can I assume you are acquainted with products such as SAS and Oracle E-Business Suite? There will be a core offering, if you will, for the financial packages of general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and so forth. Upon that foundation, any number of products can be integrated depending upon one's industry. As with any COTS product, customization to one's business rules will be required. Are we in agreement so far?
a single ERP ?
you won't find that

it's usually a suite comprised of all sorts of apps collaborating

sticking with a single vendor is not really a good idea.
Not that oracle or sap will go broke over a night.  Sometimes even they buy smaller companies because they don't have in-house what those smaller companies do.
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it is not unusual to have multiple applications  to cover the application rather trying to find one erp can handle all the business requirement
Even SAP isn't a single ERP covering a business in entirety, for instance there are warehousing modules such as Produmex which are an SAP 'Add-In'.

Go with  one of the big guys if you need to - SAP / Sage / MS Dynamics - as there are multiple companies who can provide support if one should go bust.

I'm not sure on the size of your business but even SAP's small offering in SAP Business One handles financials, as do Sage & Dynamics.

My advice would be to move away from any applications that are bespoke or unsupported, the business risk in the event of failure or loss of support must surely be too high.
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SAP is more customisable than you think, but where it's restrictive can actually add benefit in terms of keeping on top of stock control.

The key to any ERP implementation is a project manager on both sides, one for the business and one for the solution provider.