The impact of the ERP (enterprise resource planning) on the company’s flexibility is at the center of a controversy. While some researchers emphasize the positive contribution of the ERP in terms of flexibility, others emphasize its rigid nature. This paper aims to validate the positive impact of ERP’s integration on the strategic flexibility of Tunisian firms. As this impact is not obviously s...

Implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is expensive and time consuming. A substantial cost is associated with pre-implementation involvement and training designed to encourage acceptance and effective implementation of the system. The results of this study indicate that, contrary to conventional wisdom, extensive organizational investments in shaping pre-implementation attitu...

Human resource environment (HRE)of enterprises has a great influence on the growth of staff and enterprise performance, so it is necessary to do the evaluation of enterprise human resource environment. This paper constructs a human resource environment(HRE) evaluation index system formed by three first-level and fourteen secondary-level indicators, and delegates it weight through the method of ...

Enterprise resource planning systems are adopted to improve productivity and overall business performance in organizations. Implementation of these systems requires considerable financial and labour investment and therefore, the managers must understand the benefits of the system and the aspects of the system which need improvement. An approach to evaluate and track an ERP system’s success in c...

ABSTRACT Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the technology that provides the unified business function to the organization by integrating the core processes. ERP now is experiencing the transformation that will make it highly integrated, more intelligent, more collaborative, web-enabled, and even wireless. The ERP system is becoming the system with high vulnerability and high confidentiality...

As more and more enterprises move from functional to process-based IT infrastructure, ERP system becomes one of today’s most widely used IT solutions in many large enterprises. In spite of the widely used IT solutions, many ERP implementations are not successful. It takes longer time and costs more money than expected. Given the large investment that an ERP project requires and the potential be...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) was originally meant for large enterprises (LEs), hence most attention on ERP research focuses on LEs. However, ERP vendors have diverted their attention also to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in order to cater for their needs. This paper presents a systematic mapping study of ERP in the context of SMEs. The study concentrated on the ERP adoption an...

This research aims to explore factors responsible for successful implementation of ERP systems in Indian organizations. The paper also aims to explore the similarities and differences in ERP system adoption between locally-owned and multinational companies in India. The data was collected from 56 project managers and business analysts with ERP expertise from both locally-owned Indian and multin...

This paper illustrates the results of an analysis of business sectors covered by ERP solutions. The authors answer questions in regards to business sectors supported by ERP solutions, while presenting a list of supported business sectors. Using a statistical analysis, an answer is given to the question of whether there are any business sectors that are supported by a large number of ERP solutio...