Global ERP Implementation Challenges

Date: June 24, 2009

Global Energy Institute

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been in use for decades, but changes in business and information technology (IT) strategies are driving implementations, new utilization of existing functionality in current systems, and re-implementations to replace aging systems.

Organizations should be prepared for the challenges of both completing these typically large projects and selecting a team with the requisite skills, as the sheer size and complexity of today's ERP implementations can overtax internal staff resources.

This Podcast discusses the challenges in implementations and re-implementations of ERP systems.