An ERP system plays an important role in managing business processes. Recently, many universities have implemented ERP systems. However, little research has been conducted regarding these systems in the higher education sector. This paper explores and analyzes the existing literature on ERP implementation and attempts to identify the critical success factors for a successful implementation of a...

This study attempt to find the motivation of ERP implementation based on the principal-agent theory. From the view of information resource sharing and communication, which is a critical characteristic of ERP, this paper investigates whether the decision of ERP implementation is affected by the principal-agent mechanism. Method study used economics technology to design an empirical study based o...

ERP systems had played an important role in Taiwanese industry in the past. Nowadays, most of companies have already install traditional type of ERP. However, with the development of cloud computing recently, the scope of applying cloud computing have been gradually expanded to the enterprise information system, such as cloud CRM provided by Salesforce.com, Business by Design provided by SAP. T...

ERP was the major success story of the mid-1990s (Hillegersberg and Kumar 2000). When the largest of the commercial organisations had implemented ERP packages, the ERP vendors specifically targeted midsize and smaller companies with tailored products (Avarini et al. 2000). This included universities with a module tailored specifically to them, the Student Administration module. This paper focus...

It is the key of whether the ERP system can be applied successfully to definitude, organize and manage the knowledge resources during ERP implementation scientifically. In this paper, we use the analyzing method of project management to formulate the basic plan of ERP implementation. Based on that, we analyze the required knowledge according to the phases of ERP implementation, elaborate the kn...

While abundant research deals with risks of ERP implementation, only a handful deal with ERP upgrades. This case study describes the first ERP upgrade project at the Dead Sea Works (DSW) chemical company. Whereas DSW succeeded in completing the initial ERP implementation project within budget and six months ahead of schedule, the first ERP upgrade project was fraught with difficulties in projec...

Today, standardised enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are used in a majority of enterprises. There are many ERP systems with different technologies and philosophies available on the market. Therefore, the need for providing ERP knowledge by teaching the concepts of ERP systems in study courses and above all the possibilities of using these systems themselves in courses are frequently d...

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...