Despite the growing interest of ERP area, publications on these systems within the academic information systems community, as reflected by contributions to in ternational conferences and journals is only emerging. The goal of this study i s to provide an annotated bibliography of the ERP publications published in the main Information Systems conferences and journals, and categorizing them throu gh an ERP life-cycle based framework that is structured in phases. The phases a re the different stages of an ERP system life-cycle within an organization