FACTORS AFFECTING IMPLEMENTATION OF ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING IN THE CASE OF INDUSTRIAL PARKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to assess the factors affecting successful implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning in the case of Industrial Parks Development Corporation. as a result, the researcher has investigated the factor affecting implementation by selecting Management Commitment, Internet Infrastructure, Training and Education, and implementation. the study follows qualitative approach and were used descriptive and explanatory research design. It is concerned with describing, analyzing, and interpreting conditions that exists at present in order to analyze and interpreted the collected empirical data. to achieve this objective random and stratified sampling were used to select the appropriate samples of the study and to collect data for the study questionnaire were distributed to 142 end users and interview were conducted for 12 supper users and ICT teams of IPDC; regression analysis was conducted based on 108 response form 142 questionnaire... The finding of the study showed that all the independent variable named management commitment, training and education, cost of implementation and Internet Infrastructure have a positive and significant correlation with the dependent variable which is ERP implementation. in the model summary the test result showed that the value of R and R2 was statistically significant and the multiple regression analysis output confirmed that from the independent variables have statistically significant relationship to predict ERP implementation. Hence the researcher recommended that Industrial Parks Development Corporation has to give emphasis for these independent factors in order to maintain the successful implementation of ERP in order to reduce the possibility of their phase II ERP implementation.