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Implementing Best of Breed ERP Systems

Implementing Best of Breed ERP Systems
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Author(s): Joseph Bradley (University of Idaho, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 12
Source title: Handbook of Research on Enterprise Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jatinder N. D. Gupta (The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA), Sushil Sharma (Ball State University, USA)and Mohammad A. Rashid (Massey University, New Zealand)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-859-8.ch017

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Abstract

ERP implementation projects normally involve a single vendor providing the packaged software for the entire system. Although most companies follow this practice, a significant number of firms employ an alternate strategy of “best of breed” ERP. This strategy involves selecting software that best matches the current or desired business practices of the company from a variety of vendors. This strategy reduces the need for the firm to customize the software or to significantly reengineer its business practices. Best of Breed offers firms the opportunity to maintain or create competitive advantage based on unique business processes. “Vanilla” ERP implementations may result in competitors all adopting the same business processes leaving no firm with an advantage.

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