The influence of business process management and some other CSFs on successful ERP implementation

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 588-608

  Žabjek, Damijan ^a   Kovačič, Andrej ^a   Štemberger, Mojca Indihar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Critical success factors; Manufacturing resource planning; Modelling; Process management

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749117843     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150910975552     Document Type: Article

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