Avaliação da escolha de um sistema de Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) por empresários de empresas de médio porte do segmento de distribuição na grande São Paulo

Abstract

Management Integrated Systems or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been widely used for the companies whom intend to integrate the diverse information systems, to bring up to date its technological park and to get competitive advantage. The factors that can take a company to adopt an ERP are most diverse possible, but it is common that these factors are been associated to the reduction of costs, integration and processes optimization, magnifying the businesses, or even though, for being a natural trend between the competitors, suppliers and customers. In a global form, the involved costs with implantation and the deep changes at the organization structure of the company, determine that this process of election would have to be made in an isolated environment of imperfections and unreliabilities. The process of election of an ERP system must have, as main objective to find a solution which better adapt itself to the business requirements, functional necessities and investment capacity of each company, attempting against the most diverse haracteristics of prices and services of each software supplier s. The process of election of an ERP system must be minute and sufficiently rigorous, to prevent a chose that would be made in a precipitated form, preventing the use of this technology in total inadequate processes to the company cultures and operations. The midrange companies, when compared to the great corporations, they tend to be more informal in its processes of business and not to carry through great investments in TI. In this direction, the objective of this study was to analyze the keys factors whish take the entrepreneurs to choose for a solution of integrated management in midrange companies. For this objective was adopted as method the qualitative form of multiple cases, which was accomplished with 17 entrepreneurs in the distribution sector, located in the great São Paulo. The results reached in this research come to corroborate the previous affirmation that mentions the cost and factors like integration as motivated elements in the election of the ERP system.