The Impact of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems on Project Management Performance in Jordanian Hospitals

Project management is to improve quality, reduce cost and delivery time of a project, and one of the ways to achieve this purpose is through an effective organization's resource planning systems.However, Enterprise Resource Planning system is an example of a planning system that have the fundamental benefit of achieving this aim since it is a centralized databased system with various functional modules.Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of organization's resource planning on project management in Jordanian hospitals.Primary data of 273 respondents working in four MoH hospitals in Jordan was applied.By using Pearson correlation and multiple regression were carried out using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v22 to analyze the data, the results show that there is a positive significant relationship between organizations resource planning systems and project management.This study suggests that the use of an organization's resource planning systems such as ERP system in Jordanian hospitals improve project management in Jordanian hospitals because it has the built-in industryspecific common practices that facilitate best practices, reduce cost, enhance efficiencies and decreases the potential for project failures.