In de pend ent of the size of the company, an En ter prise Re source Plan ning
(ERP) sys tem can ei ther boost or doom a company, if imple mented suc cess -
fully or un suc cess fully. There is a great deal of sup port ing ev i dence from the
lit er a ture, mainly from large man u fac tur ing and ser vice or gani sa tions. This
ar ti cle adopts a case study ap proach to in ves ti gate the se lec tion and im ple -
men ta tion ac tiv i ties in a man u fac tur ing com pany in Greece fo cus ing mainly
on pro duc tion man age ment as pects. The goal is to pro vide in sight into the
ERP func tion al ity with respect to pro duc tion and thus the se lection of an ac -
tual busi ness case proves how the en ter prise suc cess fully imple mented and
in te grated such a sys tem, high light ing the pro cesses used, the ob stacles faced
and how they were over come, as well as the gains achieved. Fi nally, it pro -
vides use ful in for ma tion and prac ti cal sug ges tions that may help pro duc tion
man ag ers and us ers to get a better un der stand ing of how to de ploy such sys -
tems