Enterprise Resource Planning Framework Design for First Level City Administration’s Finance and Economic Development Offices in Oromia Region

Abstract

Nowadays we are breathing in a globalized world, when competition and struggle is very high. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is software that integrates departments and functions across an organization in to one computer system to streamline all the organizational process. Thus each department across the organization shares a common centralized database, which enables the flow of information in the organization to be faster and reliable. Developing countries like Ethiopia are not yet benefiting much from ERP systems while these systems are widely adopted in the developed countries. However, demand to ERP is increasing to the developing countries also due to economic growth and globalization. This paper describes ERP framework design for first level city administration’s finance and economic development offices in Oromia region. To achieve this goal, the researcher reviewed existing general ERP framework components and the process of various departments of First level city administration’s finance and economic development offices and also used questionnaire, interview, observation or participation to collect data. Finally, by analyzing collected data the researcher designed a frame work that is suitable for the first level city administration’s finance and economic development offices that show the integration among the internal departments.