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Evaluation of the importance of criteria for the selection of Integrated Management Systems (ERP) for use in civil construction companies

The adoption of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) by companies has introduced the need of evaluating and selecting such systems. This discussion is embedded in a context of multiple perceptions or evaluation criteria. In the present study, it a systematic literature review was conducted on a set of papers published in journals indexed by Scopus, ISI Web of Science, and Engineering Village databases focusing on the multiple criteria evaluation of ERP systems. Based on this literature review, criteria and sub-criteria was set, which was submitted for validation by a group of professionals with strong ERP System selection and implementation experience resulting in a tree comprised of 45 sub-criteria grouped into five criteria. A survey of IT and civil construction areas was conducted on a sample of 79 respondents in order to investigate the relative importance of these criteria. The survey demonstrated that the Financial, Business, and Software criteria were considered by the respondents as the most important.

Information system; ERP; Civil construction; Multicriteria; AHP; Fuzzy


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