Purpose – The need for an integrated enterprise‐wide approach to management information pronounced data warehousing (DW) the “hot topic” of the early‐to‐mid‐1990s. However, it became unfashionable in the late 1990s, with the widespread implementation of enterprise resource planning...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a critique of SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) (release ECC 6.0) forecasting functionality and offer guidance to SAP practitioners on overcoming some identified limitations. Design/methodology/approach – The SAP ERP forecasting...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the development of measures to assess the ERP adoption of small and medium‐sized enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The paper follows Churchill's guideline for developing measures that have desirable reliability and validity....

Purpose – Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are increasingly being adopted by organisations in developing countries. As in industrialised countries, this adoption seems beset by significant rates of failure, leading to a large waste of investment and other resources. This paper seeks...

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to discuss whether an enterprise system (ES) is a part of an organization's administrative paradox. The paper aims to question which role the ES has in organizing, focusing aspects of flexibility and stability. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the sequential nature that enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects tend to take and to describe how the buyer typically behaves concerning the need for control and learning in and in‐between ERP projects. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – To discuss relative advantages and disadvantages of internally operated ERP‐ and ASP‐delivered ERP functionality, and present the possible future of these alternatives. Design/methodology/approach – A thorough review of recent published papers dealing with advantages and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the social context of enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption and use within an organization, emphasizing a knowledge transfer perspective. This framework is investigated in terms of the conflicts and struggles between the best practices...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the mechanisms inducing a user organization to conform with enterprise resource planning (ERP)‐embedded organizational logics and accompanying implementation procedures. Design/methodology/approach – Based around the notion of technical...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse expectation and reality in enterprise resource planning implementation from the consultants' and software vendors' point of view and process these further as requirements of future IT systems. Design/methodology/approach – A small‐scale survey among...