IRP是信息资源规划（Information Resource Planning）的简称。信息资源规划是指对企业生产经营所需要的信息，从采集、处理、传输到使用的全面规划。以制造企业为例，不论产品设计、材料配件采购、加工制造和总装，还是销售和客户服务等等过程，无不充满着信息的产生、流通和运用。要使每个部门内部，部门之间，部门与外部单位的频繁、复杂的信息流畅通，充分发挥信息资源的作用，不进行统一的、全面的规划是不可能的。-IRP Information Resource Planning (Information Resource Planni ng), the abbreviation. Information Resources Planning refers to the production and operation of enterprises the information they need, from the collection, processing, transmission, and use of comprehensive planning. In manufacturing enterprises as an example, whether the product design, material parts procurement, processing and assembly. the sales and customer service process, fraught with all the information generated, circulation and use. Make each department within departments, between departments and external units frequent, complex information-fluent, give full play to the role of information resources, not unified, comprehensive planning is impossible.