| The amazing failure rate of ERP implementation keeps many companies away. So it is urgent and important for people in academic and industrial world to improve the success rate of ERP implementation and help more companies to benefit from ERP.Outsourcing ERP is and will be the choices of most enterprises in a long period to come. When a enterprise decides to purchase ERP, the problem is how to implement it. However, most of ERP implementation methodologies in industrial circles stand on the side of ERP vendors or consultants. There are few studies siding with enterprises, the buyer, the participant and beneficiary of ERP implementation project, which are used to teach enterprises how to positively take part in the project. And the related studies in academic world focus on theoretical research and cling to the old methods based on self-developed ERP, regardless of the transit from self-developed to outsourcing. So it offers few effective guides to the practice.In current ERP implementation, people pay more attention from the demand investigation made by consultants to go live of ERP. The important prepared work before implementation such as strategy planning, self-demand analysis, processing design and so on is easily ignored which leaves hidden trouble for the selection, implementation and operation of ERP.In view of the above, this thesis take outsourced ERP as research subject and bring forward a new ERP implementation methodology based on outsourced ERP. This model starts with the decision of purchasing ERP and takes into consideration the roles and activities in information strategy planning of enterprise, selection of ERP software and consultants, the project implementation, support and evaluation of this project. This thesis argues that clear information development plan, fine needs analysis ,"suitable" principles for the selection of a system and, grasping of business process and data flow, enterprise business process optimization, all of these are important factors of successful implementation of ERP projects. |