Tota Simatupang
Implementation of Information Technology (Information Technology) in business has been widely accepted as an important factor for company competitiveness. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a form of information system that helps companies carry out business processes and integrate a business area with other business areas in the organization. Since the 1990s, ERP has become a system-based information technology adopted by many companies in the world. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) make a major contribution to the Indonesian economy, both in terms of economic growth and in terms of labor absorption. Therefore, the increase in SME competitiveness is focused on the government and the community. IT implementation for SMEs is an important need. Seehamraju and Seethamraju (2008) examine a number of external and internal factors that force SMEs to adopt an ERP system. External factors include the initiative of partners in supply chain. Internal factors include the need to streamline the process and reduce costs. In line with the above, the adoption and implementation of ERP in SMEs provides opportunities that can improve SME performance, if implemented effectively. Nevertheless, SMEs differ significantly from large companies (Ramdani and Kawalek 2009, Buonanno et al., 2005) because SMEs have limited resources and are unable to adopt, implement, and operate the ERP offered by large ERP vendors such as SAP and Oracle. Currently there are free open-source / fos ERPs, which allow users or companies to have access to source-code freely, which allows modifying software to be done to fulfill specific business needs. The characteristics of SMEs that have limited resources and business processes that are often non-standard make the FOS-ERP utilization option be seen as appropriate to apply. Although funds and time have been invested, not all companies have managed to implement ERP. In line with this, there have been quite a number of studies conducted related to the implementation of ERP, including research on the conceptual model of six phases of ERP implementation (Esteves and Father, 1999), a two-phase study in the implementation of ERP (Delloite, 1999), a case study of success determinants The post-project phase of the OP (Nicolau, 2004), the development of the company's ERP issues in the use phase (Botta-Genoulaz and Millet, 2005), and others. Previous research on implementation and post-implementation ERP has not provided a comprehensive overview related to the management of open-source-source-based ERP implementation, which is thought to provide different challenges compared to the implementation of commercial standards. This study aims to design a framerkan (framework) that can help SMEs in maintaining the quality of the implementation process of Free Open-Source ERP, so that the investment issued by SMEs can produce improved performance expected. Case Study will be carried out on two SMEs. Data collection in Case Study will be carried out through interviews, observations and FGD (Focus Group Discussions). Research on the implementation of ERP in the project phase and post-projects has been carried out for several years with several different focus studies such as being observed on the research roadmap. This study will involve two additional researchers from FTI and 3 (three) students from the Doctoral Program and Master of Engineering and Industrial Management. The results of this study will be published in 1 (one) international journal and 1 (one) international conference. The technical report will be given to the Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia to be broader distributed to the company's practitioners and associations and used in developing government policies. The results of this study are expected to be useful for the community of researchers in the field of ERP systems and small and medium enterprises.