Medium Enterprises in Greece

Throughout the world, organisations rely heavily on deploying the correct software for their business operations. Therefore, choosing a particular operational system and software can have a significant effect on a company’s formulated business strategy. The investment required in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is very high and inappropriate selection of an ERP system could present difficulties for the company. Meticulous planning is, therefore required, in the ERP selection process. If the business has the knowledge needed to take the right steps in the evaluation and selection of an ERP product, the time taken in the implementation will be less and consequently the chances of success will be greater. ERP selection is very different from the process of purchasing off-the-shelf software such as accounting or payroll packages. Since little is known, about how small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s) implement ERP systems this study has concentrated on Greek SME’s and the questions that the research aimed to address include: • Has the Greek small and medium size enterprises using and ERP system any differences from the global ones ’ (eg. Chinese market)