Investigating the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and the feasibility study of implementing this system in the IT department of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade

Salmanpour Toluti, Ali

doi:10.22034/oajre.2024.460737.1084

Investigating the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and the feasibility study of implementing this system in the IT department of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Ali Salmanpour Toluti

MSc, business administration (Evolution management), Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran.

10.22034/oajre.2024.460737.1084

Abstract

The process of using and implementing the enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is a technical-social challenge with an impact on the strategic and operational levels of the organization that does not necessarily produce the expected results of the adopting organization. Therefore, before implementing ERP, it is necessary to assess the organization's readiness for its implementation. An organization must determine its current situation and the factors affecting the organization's readiness for the successful ERP implementation prior to its actual implementation. By review of the conducted research, the factors associated to the readiness of the IT department of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade were identified and a total of 23 partial factors pertaining the organizational readiness for the ERP system implementation were identified. Next, a questionnaire was prepared by the author to measure the relative importance of each of these factors. The results indicate that the effect of the 7-S factors on organizational readiness may not be the same so that the effects of dimensions Strategy and Shared values with a mean rank of 5.18 and 5.09, respectively, were the highest, while the effect of the dimension Staff was found to be the lowest.

Keywords

enterprise resource planning (ERP)

integrated system

ERP implementation readiness assessment