ERP Systems Selection Process

With the dawn of Supply Chain
Management and Customer Relationship Management
practices, ERP systems have evolved to become the
core of e-business platforms.
However, the deployment of an ERP system involves
considerable business process analysis, employee
retraining, and new work procedures. Thus, ERP
selection, implementation and maintenance processes
are of vital importance, and necessitates serious
research and commitment since it requires certain
level of process adaptation. It touches corporate
culture and work organization. Further, the cost and
time spend during an ERP system implementation
project signifies the impact of the system over the
organization. One of the major reasons for ERP
system implementation failures is simply derived
from inaccurate system selections.
In this book, a research is
developed to establish a framework for
ERP systems selection process and provide guidance
for better ERP systems evaluation by investigating
all the aspects of the selection process. This
research is able to identify the problematic issues,
reveal the ways to improve the selection activities
and present a roadmap.

Autorentext

studied Computer Engineering and has a M.S. degree in Science and Technology Policy Studies. She started her career as a software developer and developed industry experience in middleware technologies such as portal and integration platforms. She has pursued a career as a technology consultant working in leading software vendors.

Klappentext

With the dawn of Supply Chain Management and Customer Relationship Management practices, ERP systems have evolved to become the core of e-business platforms.However, the deployment of an ERP system involves considerable business process analysis, employee retraining, and new work procedures. Thus, ERP selection, implementation and maintenance processes are of vital importance, and necessitates serious research and commitment since it requires certain level of process adaptation. It touches corporate culture and work organization. Further, the cost and time spend during an ERP system implementation project signifies the impact of the system over the organization. One of the major reasons for ERP system implementation failures is simply derived from inaccurate system selections.In this book, a research is developed to establish a framework for ERP systems selection process and provide guidance for better ERP systems evaluation by investigating all the aspects of the selection process. This research is able to identify the problematic issues, reveal the ways to improve the selection activities and present a roadmap.