Enterprise Resource Planning Frame work design for Ethiopian Hospitals. In the case of Adama Hospital Medical College (AHMC)

Abstract

In today’s competitive business environment, ERP systems are found to be essential for companies to get competitive and strategic advantages. ERP is software that integrates functional units across an organization into one computer system. Thus, each functional unit across of the hospital shares a common centralized database, which enables the flow of information in the hospital to be faster and, reliable. According to this thesis, to develop ERP system for Adama Hospital Medical College (AHMC) the researcher studied the existing system on Patient Care Management Department, Accounting Finance Department, Human Resource Department and Pharmacy Department. The methodology used in this research was the techniques used for analysis and design of Hospital ERP design in this paper was Odoo 10.0 open source ERP software, PostgreSQL 9.5, and. Microsoft Visio 2013 was the tool used for the analysis and design of this system. Hence, the research describes ERP framework design for Adama Hospital Medical College and also used Odoo software to design the hospital functional units into a single database server. Finally, the researcher has designed a framework that is appropriate for the Hospital ERP system and integrated the hospital modules.