ERP Related info

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EASWARI ENGINEERING COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
BA 7301 – ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING
Question Bank
Part A
1. What is ERP?
2. What are the reasons for the growth of ERP market?
3. What are the advantages of ERP?
4. Why are ERP packages being used now?
5. What do you mean by Gap Analysis?
6. What is meant by lead-time?
7. What is meant by cycle time?
8. What do you mean by Customer satisfaction?
9. List any 3 measures to assess the degree of customer satisfaction.
10. What are the three fundamental characteristics of information?
11. What are the limitations of ERP systems?
12. Define BPR.
13. What are the different phases of BPR?
14. What is a data warehouse?
15. What are the advantages of a data warehouse?
16. What are the components of data warehouse?
17. What are the uses of a data warehouse?
18. What is data mining?
19. What are the technologies used in data mining?
20. What are the key features of OLAP?
21. What are the different phases of ERP implementation?
22. What is the purpose of pre-evaluation screening?
23. What is the objective of package evaluation?

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24. What is the purpose of project planning phase?
25. Explain gap analysis.
26. Explain the term executive committee.
27. Explain the term project management team.
28. Explain the term Work Team.
29. What is the function of the technical support team?
30. What is the job of administrative support team?
31. Why can’t the company carry out the ERP implementation by itself?
32. What are the skills required to implement ERP system?
33. Who is a vendor?
34. List out the roles of vendor.
35. Who is a consultant?
36. Are consultants going to be expensive?
37. Who is an end-user?
38. Define contract.
39. What is the main role of the members of the executive committee?
40. What should be the frequency of monitoring by the executive committee?
41. What is a business?
42. What are the resources used in Business?
43. What are the functions of entrepreneurs?
44. Define Financial Management
45. What are the subsystems of finance module
46. What are the subsystems of Treasury
47. Mention the use of Financial Accounting module
48. What is the use of a General Ledger?
49. What are the features of Controlling system
50. What are the modules of ERP packages.
51. Mention any 5 subsystems of Manufacturing module
52. What are the steps involved in Engineering Change Control?
53. What are the subsystems of HR Module

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54. What is the function of Recruitment Management
55. Define Travel Management
56. Define the functions of Salary administration
57. Mention the subsystems of a Plant Maintenance module
58. What are the functions of Plant Maintenance calibration tracking
59. What are the functions of Quality Management Module
60. Define Inventory Planning
61. Mention the five vendors of Top-tier
62. Give an overview of R/3
63. Mention the three tiers of R/3
64. Define Application Layer
65. Define Presentation Layer
66. Mention any 5 R/3 Modules
67. What are the features of Investment Management
68. Define Project system
69. Define Quality Management
70. Give the functions of Dynamic Form Editor
71. Define Electronic commerce
72. Mention the job of the Business Engineer
73. Mention some areas of PeopleSoft’s business management solutions
74. List any 5 business units of PeopleSoft.
75. What is PeopleTools
76. What are the 4 phasing strategies of PeopleSoft Implementation Toolkit
77. List the components of BaanERP
78. Mention any 4 product modules available from JD Edwards
79. What is MFG/PRO
80. List the mission statements of SSA
81. What are the technologies that help in real-time business?
82. What are the limitations of ERP?
83. What are the functions provided by a Business intelligence system

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84. Mention any 3 implementation requirements of a successful business
intelligence
85. What is EIA?
86. Mention the 2 flavours of EIA
87. List the leading ERP application providers
88. Mention the traditional business processes
89. What are the steps in Retail Fulfillment?
90. List the steps in Corporate Procurement
91. What are the tasks of SAP?
92. Mention any 3 processes of Baan
93. What are the compositions of HRNP
94. Mention some of the transactions performed on the Web
95. Define VPN
96. Define SSL
97. Define SET
98. List the major ERP vendors
99. List the products of major ERP vendors
100. List some of the business scenario changed by the Internet
Part B
1. Explain the reasons for the growth of ERP market.
2. Briefly explain the benefits of ERP.
3. Explain the different phases of BPR.
4. What is a data warehouse? What are the advantages and uses of a data warehouse?
5. Explain the major components of a data warehouse.
6. Explain the structure of a data warehouse.
7. Briefly explain the obstacles to successful data warehouse projects.
8. What is data mining? Explain verification model and discovery model.
9. What are the rules of OLAP? Write the uses and benefits of OLAP.
10. Explain Supply Chain Management.

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11. Explain the different phases of ERP Implementation Lifecycle.
12. Briefly explain implementation methodology.
13. Explain the areas that most managers miss to account for in their budgets.
14. Briefly explain hidden costs.
15. Explain the organization of the implementation team.
16. Explain the pros and cons of in-house implementation.
17. Briefly explain the need and role of vendors, consultants and end-users.
18. Who all are the parties with whom the company should sign a contract? Explain.
19. Explain project management and monitoring.
20. Draw and explain the organizational chart of implementation team.
21. Describe the various business modules in an ERP package
22. Explain the various subsystems of Finance module of an ERP system
23. Describe Manufacturing process
24. How does Manufacturing respond to the customer?
25. Explain the various subsystems in the HR module
26. Describe Plant Maintenance Module subsystems
27. Explain the main modules of Materials Management module.
28. Give a detailed note on Quality Management
29. Explain the subsystems of Sales and Distribution module
30. What are the components of a good Warehouse Management Application? Explain
them.
31. Give a detailed note on SAP and its advantages
32. Explain the modules of R/3 application
33. Describe the PeopleSoft Implementation toolkit.
34. Explain the emerging technologies that are developed by PeopleSoft
35. Explain BaanERP Tools
36. Describe the different product modules available from JD Edwards
37. Explain the various categories of Oracle Application Software modules.
38. Give a detailed note on MFG/PRO
39. Explain the various features of SSA

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40. Give an overview of R/3 system
41. Explain the guidelines for the implementation of a successful business intelligence
front end to an ERP solution.
42. Describe Enterprise Integration Applications and its flavors.
43. Explain SAP AG
44. Explain ERP and E-commerce.
45. Describe the overview of how business is conducted over the Internet.
46. Explain the future directions in ERP
47. Describe ERP and Internet
48. Explain the workflows of E-commerce
49. Give a detailed note on EIA
50. Explain Convergence on Windows NT and Web Enabling.