S. F. Huin <br/><br/>
Managing deployment of ERP systems in SMEs using multi-agents 

 - Nijkerk :  Elsevier,  2004 
<br/><br/> Despite the many advantages of Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems, they do not as yet represent a clear and successful management tool to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), or at least it is not as easily implementable by SMEs. This paper shares some insight into a research aimed at identifying the strategic and operational requirements of SMEs in the South East Asia (SEA) region. It highlights a set of organizational, operational and supply chain related interdependencies in SMEs which in many aspects influence project management success and methodologies deployed in ERP systems in SMEs. An agent-based model for coordinating the management of enterprise resource in SMEs is also introduced. This model expounds on how the various enterprise resources in an SME can be organized, interfaced and managed. By drawing upon this model, we can relate to how SMEs can better project managed ERP systems in their usually informal systems