The existing technology will playa very important role in the ERP selection process. Each organization will have its own technol9,gical environment: how the business is being done, what kind of hardware and software are in use, what is the database management system that is used for storing the operational and historical data, how is the data processing is done and so on. These factors can greatly influence the selection process in the sense that they can limit the number of packages, which are available for evcuatipn. It is for the management to decide whether ERP systems will be seles\ed keeping the existing infrastructure into considerations or the existing systems will not be considered (in which case some of them will have to be scrapped). But it is always better idea to find a package that is compatible with the hardware, software and technology that the company already has in place.