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Abstract The permeation of sustainability concept into the main programme of local, regional, and international governments affecting a global transformation of various types of the industry towards a sustainable future. The government enforces the organisations to embed sustainability into their vision, mission, and business strategy. To effectively implement the sustainability initiatives, the organisations need to integrate the data, information, and processes from all sustainable business functions into a consolidated database. This integration process can be executed by a Sustainable Enterprise Resource Planning (S-ERP) system, which allows practitioners to centralise all sustainable business activities of an organisation into a single system so that they can monitor their sustainability performance. However, the implementation of this system is a challenging task. Ineffective S-ERP systems implementation can increase the implementation time, cost, and even lead to failure. A master plan consisting of a roadmap, framework, and guidelines is required to lead the practitioners in implementing the S-ERP systems. Previous studies had underscored the important idea of the S-ERP systems as well as the development and evaluation of the S-ERP roadmap. This study aims to develop a framework that offers various aspects that need to be considered in the implementation of S-ERP systems. A conceptual research method, which is a fundamental method in grounded theory, is used to formulate the structure of the S-ERP framework as there is no available S-ERP framework in the literature. The S-ERP framework includes two main components including sustainability paradigm (society, environment, and economy) and decisional paradigm (strategic, tactical, and operational levels). These components are identified by incorporating various concepts including sustainability indicators, conventional strategic management, sustainability strategic management, success factors of the ERP systems implementation, and project management. The proposed S-ERP framework would assist the practitioners to capture the important aspects of the S-ERP systems implementation and facilitate them to effectively implement the systems.