ERP is the abbreviation for Enterprise Resource Planning in English. It was expanded from MRPII(Manufactory Resource Planning)and is a comprehensive enterprise management information system which is supply chain-oriented.
With rapid development of information technology, informatization has embraced the whole world and has touched every corner of people's life. The ERP implementation becomes the important content of information construction . The ERP systems implementation is expected to reach the expectation of enterprise that they can intergrate the supply chain , reduce product costs, reduce the time of new products to be on the market, increase customer satisfaction, enhance the competitive advantages, and increase enterprise profits. But , ERP implementation of the enterprise is a double-edged sword. It is able to make we taste the joy that informatization increases efficiency and reduces product costs, if not , it would force we to swallow the bitter fruit of high-risk of ERP implementation. If the situation is not serious , we may waste the labor power , physical resources and can’t get the expected effect of ERP implementation. If the situation is serious, we may cause damage to the company's normal operating order , seriously affected the production and operation of enterprises , force enterprises to give up ERP, and end as the complete failure of ERP implementation. The reason is that there lays such considerable risk of technology and management on using the ERP process. And the risk management of ERP project is weak now. So, how to identify risk and keep guard against the risk during the course of ERP system implementation is the main content of ERP project management. The author analyzes risk in view of project management and discusses the reason, classification content of risk. The paper also discussed the methods to get rid of the risks during applying ERP and explain the importance of risk avoidance with a specific case.
KEYWORDS:ERP,risk of implementation , analysis of risk ,control of risk , ERP system implementation
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