<p>BPCS was developed by Chicago-based System Software Associates (SSA), which later became&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSA_Global_Technologies" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);">SSA Global Technologies</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Planning_and_Control_System#cite_note-ITJungle-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);"><sup>[1]</sup></a>&nbsp;(which was then acquired by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infor_Global_Solutions" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);">Infor Global Solutions</a>&nbsp;and rebranded as Infor LX), and is used to control the operations of manufacturing companies. BPCS includes&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_requirements_planning" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);">MRP</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);">logic</a>&nbsp;to manufacturing operations, provided there are high standards of data validity such as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);">engineering</a>&nbsp;specifications and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventory" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);">inventory</a>&nbsp;accuracy. It runs on several systems, with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);">IBM I</a>, being the most popular. It is written in AS/SET&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASE_tool" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);">CASE tool</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG_programming_language" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);">RPG</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);">SQL</a>&nbsp;and other languages supported on IBM I.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Planning_and_Control_System#cite_note-FundingUniverse-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);"><sup>[3]</sup></a></p><p>Many of the BPCS modules are stand-alone,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Planning_and_Control_System#cite_note-ITJungle-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);"><sup>[1]</sup></a>&nbsp;in that companies can choose to implement only the financial applications, for example, and none of the manufacturing.</p><p>SSA began developing BPCS in the early 1980s; by the mid 1990s, the BPCS programs were used internationally.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inc._(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);"><em>Inc. magazine</em></a>&nbsp;ranked SSA as the 23rd fastest growing small public company in 1988,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Planning_and_Control_System#cite_note-FundingUniverse-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);"><sup>[3]</sup></a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Week" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial; color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);"><em>Business Week</em></a>&nbsp;named it the 25th best small company.</p>