Authors: Brian Fynes; Sean de Burca
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems dominated the enterprise software market in the mid to late 1990s. Organisations adopted ERP systems to improve business processes, reduce costs, and prepare for future growth. While the rate of adoption of ERP was very high there was also much criticism for expensive overrun implementations, restricted functionality and inflexible complicated configuration and set-up.This article examines how organisations combined ERP and Internet technologies to enhance performance and improve competitiveness. Specifically the paper will address how Internet technologies and ERP can be harnessed to enhance competitive advantage and identify the barriers preventing organisations from harnessing these technologies? Four leading companies were interviewed to determine their approach to extended ERP and the barriers encountered? While each of the companies had already taken some steps in this direction they are adopting a cautious approach to the future, preferring to wait and see rather than push their partners towards integration. In short, organisations considering extended ERP should determine the impact on all organisations before proceeding and should also apply the lessons learned from their initial ERP implementation.
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Publish Year: 2003
Conference: Lugano, Switzerland (2003)