ERP SYSTEM SELECTION BY AHP METHOD: CASE STUDY FROM TURKEY

Year 2011, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 39 - 48, 01.06.2011

Babak Daneshvar Rouyendegh Turan Erman Erkan

Abstract

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a critical investment that can
significantly affect competitiveness of a corporate in the future. There are many
national and international ERP vendors in Turkey. This study presents a
comprehensive framework for selecting a suitable ERP system by using Analytic
Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP method, directs how to determine the priority of a
set of alternatives and the relative importance of attributes in a multiple criteria
decision-making problem. The framework can systematically construct the
objectives of an ERP selection to support the business goals and strategies of an
enterprise. A real-world case from Turkey demonstrates the feasibility of the
proposed framework.

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