Analysis of minimum size requirements of organizations for the implementation of enterprise resource planning systems

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: very good, Indiana University (Strategic Management), course: Strategic Management / ERP/SAP Systems: Supply Chain Management, language: English, abstract: The research will focus on finding benchmark data on the required size of companies that is necessary for a full SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation. The analysis will look into benefits and costs of the implementation and long term prospects generated by the system. Practical examples will be used to illustrate the main findings, both from a positive as well as a negative viewpoint. [...]