Historically, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems were initially destined to large companies in order to standardize and streamline their key business processes. Recently, they have been increasingly adopted by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). However, making strategic tradeoffs among the various marketplace solutions is a troublesome balance task for SMEs without the rescue of syste...

Commercial off-the-shelf ERP systems have been adopted by many large companies to support their interand intra-business processes. Midsize market firms are now also investing their use. However, research has indicated that about three quarters of attempted ERP projects are unsuccessful: a common problem encountered in adopting ERP software has been the issue of fit or alignment. This paper pres...

In this article, we focus on enterprise sizes and industry sectors to compare their difference on enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation development, package selection, and user satisfaction in Taiwan. A survey, using the measurement instrument, of two representative samples of “large size enterprise vs. medium size enterprise” and “electronics & science industry vs. traditional indu...

introduction: hospitals require a central monitoring and improve planning process in order to enhance patient care quality. regarding the current developments in health care systems, the question is which information system can support transformation of hospitals. this review article focuses on the capacity of enterprise resource planning (erp) systems for the transformation of hospitals. metho...

The capabilities of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to integrate all the business functions needed in a single system with a shared database efficiently and effectively has persuaded organizations to adopt them. In enterprise environment, successful ERP implementation has played a vital role for organizational efficiency. In this respect critical success factors (CSFs) have been id...

The purposes of this paper are to address the declining management information systems (MIS) enrolment problem, to suggest an enterprise resource planning (ERP)-based MIS curriculum which could reverse the enrolment decline, and to facilitate ERP integration in the business curriculum by analysing ERP software usage across industries. Enterprise resource planning systems are popular today becau...

Organizations nowadays focus on, not implementing ERP systems, but also leveraging ERP systems as part of their digital strategy. They holistically address people, processes, and technology for a digital transformation. Meanwhile, higher education institutions (HEIs) are also facing an imperative need for the implementation of modern technologies to stay competitive and differentiate them as an...

Recently, companies have developed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. ERP systems will integrate business processes and provide information. However, successful ERP implementation is costly and requires a long time to complete. Companies usually use outside consultants to ensure a successful ERP project. ERP consultant selection is a difficult task for an ERP project implementation. Th...

This paper presents an application of multicriteria analysis in a large Greek company for the selection of an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system. The limited time available in most of the companies for software selection, the inability to make fast but sound decisions on IT issues and the luck of technical expertise in ERP functionality often results in an undocumented or even irrational...

In this paper we detail the results from an empirical study concerning differences in characteristics of the ERP system selection process between small or medium and large sized organizations. In particular we address the fields of software packages considered and chosen, the weights assigned to different selection criteria, the persons involved in this process, the methods employed and impleme...