Audit of ERP Systems

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a category of software used for planning and management of resources in an enterprise. It can be used to manage whole business processes, integrating purchasing, inventory, personnel, customer service, shipping, financial management and other aspects of the business. An ERP system typically is based on a common database and comes with modules of various integrated business process and business analysis tools.

The Gartner Group has identified some specific concerns of management regarding ERP systems, including:

• Failure to meet user requirements
• Failure to integrate
• Incompatiblity with technical infrastructure
• Vendor support problems
• Expensive and complex installations

An audit of an ERP could provide:-

• assurance covering the area of process integrity.
• assurance covering the area of application security.
• assurance covering the area of infrastructure integrity.
• assurance covering the area of implementation integrity.