Advantages and Limitation of ERP Software Solution for Non-Profit Humanitarian Organizations

Enterprise Resources Planning – ERP is a software solution for business process and manage the resources in organizations. At thesame time, ERP systems can bring an enormous benefits to Non profit organizations. NGOs was faced the managing administrativesystems, financial systems and personal (include employees and volunteers) across different countries and cultures. This can be able toovercome stringent transparency obligations and multinational regulations. ERP solution built for Non profits can help theorganization to achieve three main benefits: Accountability, Transparency and Efficiency. ERP allowed the automation of itsdepartment’ activities, made information available to users at the right time, supporting more accurately their decision making needs.However, the implementation of ERP systems don’t cover all processes for their organization. Most of the organizations haverecognized this limitations and felt the need to implement the specific solutions to their organizations. So, we need to analyze theadvantages and limitations of ERP systems in the Non profit humanitarian organizations environment in order to understand how thisenvironment uses ERP systems and solves the challenges of integrating information spread over the organizations. ERP Systememerges as management systems that allow the administration of an organization’s resources in and integrated manner by automatingdepartments in real time. They provide decision makers with an overview of the organizations’ situations. The major difficulties in theimplementation of ERP system is the long period. It is critics accuse of in ever evolving environments