Publication of Little Lion Scientific R & D , Islamabad PAKISTAN CRITICAL SUCCESS AND FAILURE FACTORS OF ERP IMPLEMENTATIONS : TWO CASES FROM KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA

Every year, the number of high-profile ERP (enterpr ise resource planning) project failures in the IT industry are normalized, failures that burn through mountains of cash, bring company operations to a standstill, generate bad publicity for vendors and toss careers in the trash. This paper is a comprehensive description of how cr itical success and failure factors impact the implementation of two major ERP systems. In this pa per we have covered some ERP systems and its major components more over we have addressed some critica l su cess and failure factors in detail. Two case studies have been presented and mapped these critic al factors with successful results. Finally we have presented a priority model to learn how these facto rs must be taken before starting such ERP systems.