The impact of business process management on ERP system benefits

Implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects needs relatively high amount of investment costs. Due to the high failure rates, these projects face real challenges and risks. Studies reveal that rapid implementation aids of these projects has not been evaluated, consequently lots of expenses have been imposed to organizations due to the failures. On the other hand the failures have been caused to increasing in market risk and also managers and investors pessimism about the projects. This study has evaluated the effects of business process reengineering (BPR) process on ERP systems implementation goals and their anticipated benefits. The statistical review in this study based on information extracted from organizations that had been implemented the ERP systems, reveals that there is a positive relationship between implementing BPR process and gaining more benefits from ERP systems.