Critical success factors for offshoring of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations

• Authors: Rajneesh Chauhan , Rajeev Dwivedi , Arun Sherry

Abstracts

EN

Background: In recent years, offshoring enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation has been an emerging trend in the field of offshoring information technology (IT). However, both ERP implementations and IT offshoring are fraught with risks, and when both ERP implementation and IT offshoring happen together, the risks become even more pronounced. Therefore, it is important to understand and identify the issues of ERP implementation in an offshoring situation. Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the key factors that enable successful offshoring ERP implementation from the client and the vendor perspective. Methods/Approach: The paper uses literature as a basis for identifying a critical success factor, data collected through semi-structured interviews with ERP managers at various levels of the subject organizations, and eventually their analysis. Results: The findings of the paper reveal that various factors are critical while implementing offshoring ERP. They include: offshoring partnership, project management, project team composition, people issues, communications and compliance of the onsite team composition. It is also noticed that ten factors are grouped into three categories: the client side, the vendor side, and both. Conclusions: Organizations are currently undertaking or considering the offshoring ERP implementation particularly from India. This paper will enable them to understand the possible challenges and areas of offshoring the ERP implementation program. The value and originality of the paper comes from the fact that up to now, ERP implementation in offshoring has not been comprehensively explored. This research provides a complete understanding of the critical success factors from the client, the vendor or both the client and the vendor perspective. It also enables researchers to analyse ili rethink ili review offshoring in different service areas.

Keywords

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); Implementation; Offshoring; Critical Success Factors

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Business Systems Research Journal
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 4-13

Dates

published

2012-06-01

online

2012-09-17

Contributors

author

Rajneesh Chauhan

• Institute of Management Technology (CDL), Ghaziabad, India

author

Rajeev Dwivedi

• Institute of Management Technology (CDL), Ghaziabad, India

author

Arun Sherry

• Institute of Management Technology (CDL), Ghaziabad, India

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10305-012-0001-5