Research Methodology for Assessing Malaysian SMEs Perspective on ERP

Author

Shahawai, Siti Shafrah ; Idrus, Rosnah

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Penang

fYear

2009

fDate

25-29 May 2009

Firstpage

407

Lastpage

412

Abstract

SMEs (small medium enterprises) in Malaysia play an essential role in the Malaysian economic growth. ERP (enterprise resource planning) system can be one of the tools to increase their effectiveness and competitiveness in global market. The aim of an ERP system is to improve the efficiency of the whole business operations in an organization and increase the optimal returns. Most SMEs cannot afford to adopt an existing ERP system due to the extremely high cost and complex implementation of the system. This paper will discuss the future market for SMEs in Malaysia, the issues in adopting ERP and the requirement and characteristic of the ERP system in Malaysian SMEs. Surveys and field study will be conducted in this research work to assess the Malaysian SMEs perspective on ERP. From the findings, we will then propose a model of an ERP system appropriate for SMEs.

Keywords

economics; enterprise resource planning; small-to-medium enterprises; ERP; Malaysian SMEs; business operations; enterprise resource planning system; global market; small medium enterprises; Asia; Business; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Enterprise resource planning; Globalization; Manufacturing; Marketing and sales; Samarium; ERP; Malaysian SMEs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modelling & Simulation, 2009. AMS '09. Third Asia International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bali

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4154-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3648-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AMS.2009.122

Filename

5072021