The importance of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in the optimisation of the small and medium enterprise's resources in Morocco

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the most popular and successful IT solution, newly used in organizations to exchange the information among different business entities, to improve and maximize productivity. The system is expensive, time consumer and complicated to implement and manage. The challenges of ERP implementation have caused a high rate of failure based on the stories of numerous organizations that have deployed the solution. ERP brings together data from all business functions, giving the entire organization a broader perspective. They can control the whole company by monitoring purchasing, requests, ordering, finished products in stock and other business-critical information needed for management. Successfully deployed enterprise resource planning systems can deliver significant strategic, operational, and informational benefits to the organizations involved, saving resources and time.