ERP: a literature survey

作者:Nazemi Eslam; Tarokh Mohammad Jafar*; Djavanshir G Reza
来源:International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2012, 61(9-12): 999-1018.
DOI:10.1007/s00170-011-3756-x

摘要

Most of organizations have a "functional structure," which is composed of various functional units. In some cases, each functional unit works towards their own goals and objectives, rather than the organizational goals. This is further aggravated because information flow is restricted by functions, and even when other functional units want to take a systemic view, they do not have the needed information to do so. These are the issues addressed by "Enterprise Resource Planning" (ERP) software solutions providing a common and consistent system to capture information organization-wide, with minimum redundancy. Today, many organizations acquire and implement ERP to improve their operational performance and create strategic value; however, they fail to achieve these objective due to lack of knowledge and better understanding of ERP and its lifecycle. Although, so far, hundreds of research article are published separately focusing on ERP and various issues related to its lifecycle and management, there is no survey and overview of the article published in different top-tier journals. We believe that a survey of the articles related to ERP provides better understanding of ERP and attempts to create an information bank of the published articles these in turn, contribute to improving the performance of an enterprise in terms of achieving its strategic value creation goals. In this study, we attempt to summarize our survey and review of the articles related to ERP.

  • 出版日期2012-8