Abstract:
The popularity of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is increasing in many industries. Many
researchers have conducted studies on ERP in relation with construction industry as well. The observations
of some of the researches were contradictory, while most of them are observing positive tendency among
the contractors. Nevertheless, the tendency of Sri Lankan contracting organisations to implement ERP
systems has not been studied. Hence, this research aimed to find the tendency of Sri Lankan contracting
organisations to implement ERP systems.
A mixed research approach along with an extensive literature review has been carried out to pursue the
aim of this research. The concept of ERP has been identified along with the driving and restraining factors
in implementing ERP system to contracting organisations.
It has been identified that ERP system is popular among the Sri Lankan construction industry professionals
since most of them at least heard about the system. Nevertheless, as per the conclusion, even though there
is a positive tendency among global contractors to implement ERP system to their organisations, Sri Lankan
contracting organisations are still lacking in confidence to implement the system.
