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ERP Selection Using Expert Choice Software

2005; Creative Decisions Foundation; Linguagem: Inglês

10.13033/isahp.y2005.030

1556-830X

Oyku Alanbay,

Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management

Usage of enterprise applications is becoming widespread every day and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are among these applications.ERPs are preferred because of their organizationwide information sharing capability, component-based structure and capability to be integrated with other systems.Choosing which ERP to use is a complex decision that has significant economic consequences, thus it requires a multi-criterion approach.Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a method widely used for this kind of complex decision-making problems.In this paper, a multi-attribute ERP selection decision model is introduced, based on the AHP methodology.The model is illustrated with an example and managerial implications are discussed.Based on the AHP, Expert Choice (EC) is a decision support software that reduces complex decisions to a series of pair wise comparisons and then synthesizing the results.In this study, EC is used to perform the ERP selection procedure, provided the objectives and criteria.