AHP Application in the Acquisition of a Hospital Management ERP

• Autor(a) principal: Vitorino, Sidney Lincoln
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Russo, Rosaria de Fátima Segger Macri, Camanho, Roberto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Gestão e Projetos (GeP)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/gep/article/view/9652
• topic: Project management; acquisitions; ERP; AHP; multi-criteria decision-making.; Gestão de Projetos; Aquisições; ERP; AHP; Decisão Multicritério

The implementation of a hospital management system is a crucial project for an organization that aims to develop and integrate their business processes. This type of system is known as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The acquisition of an ERP is a complex decision due to the novelty of the type of decision, the impact on the modus operandi of the organization and the change project processes and adequacy of manpower. Each department may have different objectives and criteria to define what would be the best option. In such cases, the application of a method of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM), as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), could contribute to this choice. The objective of this article is to identify how the AHP method can help a hospital complex in decision-making process on the selection of a management system. It was the study of a single case, based on documents generated in the decision process and in-depth interviews. The analysis results showed that the using of AHP method could collaborate in the system acquisition process with the generation of criteria based on the needs of all areas, in obtaining team consensus in the process of acquisition decision, team commitment and engagement of stakeholders.