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Enterprise resource planning ERP software has gotten a bad rap over the years. A string of implementation failures in the 1990s and early 2000s—Hershey’s, Nike and Waste Management come to mind—dashed much of the early optimism surrounding the software, leading many executives to consider ERP more of a necessary evil than a golden goose.
This is understandable. Just as you might be afraid of air travel if you did nothing but watch plane disasters every day, so too might you be wary about implementing an ERP system if you did nothing but read the tech blogs that go wild when implementations go south. But just as you never hear about the thousands of flights that land safely every day, you rarely hear about the implementation projects that go smoothly.
Read the complete article at: How to Avoid an ERP Implementation Nightmare