Business Process Reengineering and ERP Systems: Mapping Research Trends in Organizational Transformation

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Pranav Bhandare, Pragalbha Sarve, Manisha Maddel


Abstract

 Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are closely connected approaches to organizational transformation. BPR focuses on fundamentally rethinking and redesigning business processes, while ERP systems integrate information, activities, and resources across functional areas. This paper maps visible research themes linking BPR and ERP systems using three VOSviewer visualizations: a network visualization, an overlay visualization, and a density visualization. The maps place ERP, system, business process, approach, enterprise, data, and business process reengineering-related concepts within a connected thematic field. The density map highlights ERP, system, and business process as prominent areas of concentration in the displayed keyword set. The overlay map shows variation in the average publication-year coloring of terms, with the displayed scale extending approximately from 2024.8 to 2025.3. These visual patterns suggest that the literature can be organized around process redesign, enterprise systems, information/data integration, and emerging technology-related approaches. The paper discusses how BPR and ERP can complement one another, the organizational challenges associated with their integration, and implications for implementation and future research. Because the raw bibliographic export, search strategy, and VOSviewer settings were not supplied, the analysis is interpretive rather than a reproducible quantitative bibliometric study; no unsupported counts, cluster totals, or citation metrics are claimed.


Keywords

Business Process Reengineering; Enterprise Resource Planning; ERP Systems; Organizational Transformation; Business Processes; Bibliometric Mapping; VOSviewer



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