Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation projects are notoriously risky. While large-scale ERP cases continue to be developed, relatively few new ERP cases have been published that further ERP implementation education in small to medium size firms. This case details the implementation of a new ERP system in a medium sized manufacturing firm. As students explore the case, they wi...

The worldwide installed base of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has increased rapidly over the past 10 years now comprising tens of thousands of installations in largeand medium-sized organizations and millions of licensed users. Similar to traditional information systems (IS), ERP systems must be maintained and upgraded. It is therefore not surprising that ERP maintenance activities...

In a distributed ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, the different local ERP systems are integrated in such a way that each local system can use the resources/stocks managed by the other local ERP systems. Businesses with branch offices may benefit greatly from such systems. In this paper, we will describe how a distributed ERP system can be used to convert/migrate to a new ERP system in...

Cloud ERP (C-ERP) systems help firms to reach greater levels of sustainable performance (Gupta, Qian, Bhushan, & Luo, 2019). Ali (2016) demonstrate that the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation influences financial indicators. Huang, Rahim, Foster, and Anwar (2021) had investigated identified critical success factors (CSFs) which may affect successful C-ERP systems. Howe...

While one-site, one-instance implementation was the common practice during the infancy of ERP systems, the growing business trend towards globalization and the advancement of ERP and telecommunication technology have increased the popularity of centralized single-instance ERP systems among multinational corporations. The ERP distribution decision in MNCs has been mainly associated with the corp...