Enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects are considered to be expensive, time-consuming, difficult to manage, and extremely risky. ERP projects are risky from strategic, operational, technical and organisational perspectives. Risks and critical success factors of ERP projects have been widely studied, and the management of risks is a key to a successful ERP project. Generic risk analyses hav...

This paper proposes and initiates research on a top-down approach for ERP Implementation Success. Here the actual health assessment of on-going ERP Projects is Reverse Engineered keeping the expected ERP outcome as our base and evaluating it against ERP Projects' current developmental progress made vis-à-vis the Critical Success Factors. A three step methodology is proposed. The ultimate a...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been a major investment for most companies since the early nineties. ERP is a type of investment that has an integrated approach, and has been widely adopted, but there is little empirical evidence about how ERP implementation affects company performance. This chapter begins with the discussion of ERP investment and its role as a commodity or as a strategi...

In the 1990s there was considerable growth in implementations of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems. Companies expected these systems to support many of the day to day business transactions. The growth in ERP implementations had a resultant impact on the demand for ERP skills. Many universities recognized this demand and the potential of using ERP Systems software as a teaching tool, an...

This template provides authors with most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing their articles. Enterprise resource management system ERP / ERP II project is the management system to maintain and develop competitive advantage and plays a major role in enterprise development, The implementation of ERP / ERP II project involves the changes of management institutional and the transf...

Business information system is an area of the greatest significance in any business enterprise today. Enterprise Resource Planning [ERP] projects are a growing segment of this vital area. These software systems are designed and installed by ERP vendors. Most current research on the subject concerns only managerial issues. This study is to probe the performance of ERP software in terms of the th...

Recently, a significant number of major construction companies embarked on the implementation of integrated information technology solutions such as enterprise resource planning ERP systems to better integrate various business functions. However, these integrated systems in the construction sector present a set of unique challenges, different from those in the manufacturing or other service sec...

During recent years, industries have invested considerable resources in the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. ERP is the processofintegrating all the business functions and processes in an organization to achieve numerous benefits.Implementation of ERP systems in the industries does not remain always successful as sometimes this brings partial success or complete fai...

O COMPETE EFFECTIVELY IN TODAY’S global business environments, firms must use information technology to support the continuous improvement of business processes. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the latest in an evolutionary series of computer tools developed for managing information and organizations. ERP systems are simply integrated information systems. They integrate processes, informa...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have become the de facto standard for large and medium companies to run all their major functional and process operations. Some even describe ERP systems as the price of entry for running a business. ERP system per se cannot be perceived as a source of competitive advantage anymore, since a significant percentage of companies already implemented them. ...