This paper discusses proposed research toward developing guidelines for implementation and quantification of results of enterprise resource planning.
The following paper examines the way in which enterprise resource planning software solutions provide a common, consistent system to capture data organization-wide to integrate information across corporate functions and to provide tools for planning and monitoring the various functions and processes towards a common purpose. This paper discusses how the success of ERP Implementation relies not only on the realization of a plan but a process of organizational change. The writer examines how different implementation phases reflect an increasing level of complexity in terms of technical implementation, process changes and training.
“Enterprise software is an explosively-growing $23 billion a year sub-industry of software for companies looking to use technology to improve virtually every key corporate function manufacturing, finance, sales, marketing, human resources and supply-chain management. In 1990, the sector’s total sales amounted to no more than $1 billion, but is predicted to have annual sales of $84 billion by 2002. The potential is seemingly unlimited because so many companies are convinced they must have this software in order to be competitive in the current and coming economy (Glover, 2000).Enterprise Resource Planning software solutions are software solutions that provide a common, consistent system to capture data organization-wide to integrate information across corporate functions and to provide tools for planning and monitoring the various functions and processes towards a common purpose.”