USA Principles for the Implementation:

Some typical failures of ERP implementation have revealed that most of these companies have started the ERP implementation procedure by first focusing on automation effort. Studies have also shown that automation, in an enterprise for productivity improvement without understanding and simplifying the process, is one of the major causes for the failure of the ERP implementation. It leads to the USA principle for the implementation of the ERP system.

USA refers for a sequential approach: Understand-Simplify-Automate as illustrated in Figure. The USA approach calls for dedicated effort towards understanding the business procedure. Without this, any attempt for implementation of ERP is likely to fail. Second step is to go for simplification of the procedure. Last step is to go for the automation of the process.