International Business Management
ISSN: OnlineISSN: Print 1993-5250
Abstract
The complex nature of today’s business poses challenges for supply chain management which embraces dispersed supplier, production and distribution activities worldwide. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has risen to prominence as a result of its promise to integrate business processes from upstream to downstream. The past two decades, however have witnessed complications surrounding ERP implementation; its impact on firm performance has been reported as being inconclusive. This study argues that the extent of ERP integration is a missing link in the story and aims to investigate the hypothesis that the extent of ERP integration is positively associated with plant performance. Using a global sample of 641 manufacturers this research identifies four distinct ERP integration patterns, epitomized by different extents and directions of integration and finds a significant association between the broadest degree of ERP integration and plant performance improvement.
How to cite this article:
Majdi Anwar Quttainah. Taxonomy of ERP Integrations and Plant Performance.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/ibm.2017.204.214
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1993-5250/ibm.2017.204.214