01-09-2014, 11:45 AM
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) project is a large enterprise program, both from a business and technology point of view. It generates huge changes and often involves calling into question many traditional functions within the company, for which people are seldom well prepared. It often requires the implementation of several new systems and their integration with existing systems and often represents one of the larger IT projects – certainly one of the highly critical ones in most companies,Cooperation between business and IT extends to a global collaboration between many business units and several entities of the IT department. The success of the project will depend on the quality of that collaboration. Before starting such a challenging project, certain conditions must be assured. The company must ensure the maturity in ERP and the technical and management capabilities of the IT department and the ability of both business and IT to work together. Without these prerequisites, companies would not be able to lead and achieve the different phases of a ERP project