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BPCS was developed by Chicago-based System Software Associates (SSA), which later became [[SSA Global Technologies]]<ref name=ITJungle /> (which was then acquired by [[Infor Global Solutions]]), and is used to control the operations of manufacturing companies. BPCS includes [[Material requirements planning|MRP]] [[logic]] to manufacturing operations, provided there are high standards of data validity such as [[engineering]] specifications and [[inventory]] accuracy. It runs on several systems, with the [[IBM System i]] (previously named IBM AS/400 and IBM eServer iSeries), being most popular. It is written in AS/SET [[CASE tool]], [[RPG programming language|RPG]], [[SQL]] and other [[IBM]] languages supported on the System i.<ref name=FundingUniverse/>

Many of the BPCS modules are stand-alone,<ref name=ITJungle /> in that companies can choose to implement only the financial applications for example, and none of the manufacturing. The competitive strength of BPCS over other ERP vendor competition, however, is in its manufacturing and planning applications.{{citation needed|date=October 2010}}

SSA began developing BPCS in the early 1980s; by the mid 1990s the BPCS programs were used internationally.<ref name=FundingUniverse/> ''[[Inc. (magazine)|Inc. magazine]]'' ranked SSA as the 23rd fastest growing small public company in 1988<ref name=FundingUniverse/> and ''[[Business Week]]'' named it as the 25th best small company.