Leveraging on Enterprise Resource Planning as a Determinant of Administrative Efficiency of Indigenous Oil and Gas Companies in Rivers State, Nigeria

Authors: Timothy Dagogo Minima and Dr. (Mrs.) Chizi. E. Obara1

Abstract:
The study explored the relationship between enterprise resource planning and administrative efficiency of indigenous oil and gas producing companies in Rivers State. The research provided answers to four questions and tested ten hypotheses in order to establish the hypotheses formulation that there is no significant relationship between enterprise resource planning and administrative efficiency. The study population comprised of the twenty-four Indigenous oil and gas producing companies in Rivers State. The research selected three managerial staff members from each of the firms under study making it a total seventy-two study elements. Data were generated from the respondents by the use of a well-structured copies of questionnaire. Pearson’s product moment correlation, partial correlation and multiple regressions were used to test the hypotheses with the aid of statistical packages for social science (SPSS) version 23.0. The P-values were calculated to determine the significance of the hypothesized relationship. Analytical outcomes revealed statistically positive and significant relationships between the dimensions of our predictor variable-enterprise resource planning and the measures of the criterion variable-administrative efficiency. Based on the findings, the study concluded that enterprise resource planning has a positive significant relationship with administrative efficiency of Indigenous oil and gas producing companies in Rivers State. The study further recommended amongst others, that Managers of indigenous oil and gas producing companies should apply objectivity in their Hybrid ERP processes as this has the potency to either ruin or enhance their Administrative Efficiency.

Keywords: ERP, AE, Resource Planning, Oil and Gas, Efficiency

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