The study has highlighted several factors including top management support, communication, cooperation, training and technological complexity, | Recent advances in enterprise resource planning Accounting 1 2015 37 42 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Accounting homepage ac Recent advances in enterprise resource planning Sara Orougi Department of Industrial Engineering Iran University of Science and Technology Iran CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Enterprise resource planning ERP is an integrated system which consists of various Received June 5 2015 integrated applications. ERP is implemented to collect store manage and interpret data from Received in revised format different business activities including product planning expenses production and or service August 16 2015 delivery sales management inventory planning shipping and payment. The study covers the Accepted November 23 2015 Available online latest studies mostly on detecting factors influencing on the success of ERP implementations. November 25 2015 The study has highlighted several factors including top management support communication Keywords cooperation training and technological complexity which were believed to be the most Enterprise resource planning influential factors on development of ERP systems. In addition several multi criteria decision ERP making systems were used for ranking different software packages for ERP implementation. Success Moreover many studies have attempted to consider mathematical methods by considering uncertainty associated with data. 2015 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Enterprise resource planning ERP is an integrated system which consists of various integrated applications Deshmukh et al. 2015 . ERP is implemented to collect store manage and interpret data from different business activities including product planning expenses production and or service delivery sales management inventory planning shipping and payment Ifinedo 2011 Malaurent amp Avison 2015 . ERP gives a comprehensive insight of core business processes based on common databases .
