Designing ERP systems with knowledge management capacity

Abstract Globally, over the past decade, there has been a tremendous proliferation of the traditional enterprise resource planning systems in businesses. In addition, the economy has evolved into a knowledge‐based economy that has made knowledge a valuable asset for businesses. As knowledge‐based economy evolves and businesses implement enterprise resource planning systems, it is inevitable that there is a need to integrate enterprise resource planning systems and knowledge management. In this paper, we discuss the design issues of enterprise resource planning systems in the knowledge‐based economy environment. Enterprise resource planning systems based on knowledge management combine traditional enterprise resource planning and knowledge management effectively and are suitable in the knowledge‐based economy as the new requirement of enterprises. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.