Success Factors in Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) adoption and its extensive application by great and medium-size firm and organizations are described as ERP revolution. Numerous firms have substituted their old information systems with newer ones, i.e. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems as an integrated response to extensive information needs of firms. ERP is a unique data base system that integrates and consolidates raw data, turns them into information and finally delivers its output to information system users. Such system makes firm users able to coordinate and develop firm plans and programs in spite of geographical limits. ERP enhance automation and cooperation among firm segments like sale, marketing, production, operation, and administration. Certainly a better understanding of critical success factors will enable practitioners and academics to improve the chance of success in the implementation ERP projects. Considering this motivation, this study tries to examine the critical success factors for implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems using the framework of classical management theory