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The central feature of all ERP systems is a shared database that supports multiple functions used by different business units. In practice, this means that employees in different divisions—for example, accounting and sales—can rely on the same information for their specific needs.
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The central feature of all ERP systems is a shared database that supports multiple functions used by different business units. In practice, this means that employees in different divisions—for example, accounting and sales—can rely on the same information for their specific needs.
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7. Enterprise Resource Planning- ERP
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a process used
by companies to manage and integrate the important
parts of their businesses.
8. What is ERP?
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are the
specific kind of enterprise systems to integrate data
across and be comprehensive in supporting all the major
functions of the organization.
12. HIERARCHY ??
Operational Management Team
Data Type
Entry Level Data
Decision Making
Structured -As per SOP
INFORMATION SYSTEM
Transaction Processing System - TPS
Managerial Team
Data Type
Summarized Data
Decision Making
Semi – Structured
INFORMATION SYSTEM
Management Information System - MIS
Top
Management
Data Type
Graphical, Visual
Charts
Decision Making
Unstructured
INFORMATION SYSTEM
Executive Information System -
EIS
FLOW of
INFORMATION
UPWARD
OUTPUT
INPUT
OUTPUT
INPUT
13. Transaction processing systems
• Perform and record daily routine transactions necessary to
conduct business
Examples: sales order entry, payroll, shipping, banking
• Allow managers to monitor status of operations
14. Management information systems
• Serve middle management
• Provide reports on firm’s current performance, based on
data from TPS
• Provide answers to routine questions with predefined
procedure for answering them
• Typically have little analytic capability
15. Executive information systems (EIS)
• It is a decision support system (DSS) used to assist senior
executives in the decision-making process.
• It provides easy access to important data needed to achieve
strategic goals in an organization.
• An EIS normally features graphical displays on an easy-to-use
interface.
16. Operational Management Team
INFORMATION SYSTEM
Transaction Processing System - TPS
Managerial Team
INFORMATION SYSTEM
Management Information System - MIS
Top
Management
INFORMATION SYSTEM
Executive Information System - EIS
If we divide them into
different Departments or
Business Unit
Human
Resource
Finance Marketing Sales Supply Chain
FLOW of information is only
upward
17. Top
Management
Human
Resource
Finance Marketing Sales Supply Chain
No Horizontal
No Downwards
What Does it means??
No Integration among
Business Units
Minimum Communication
Level
Delays in Decision making
Inefficient Operations
High Cost – Expensive to
Operate
Inaccurate Data Provision
Time Consuming
Outdated Practices
Managerial Team
Operational Management Team
20. TypicalBusinessProcess:Keyobservation
• A typical enterprise has many Departments/ Business units(BU).
• These Departments/ BU continuously communicate and exchange
data with each other.
• The success of any organization lie’s in effective communication and
data exchange within the Departments/ BU as well as associated
third party such as Vendors, Outsourcers and Costumers.
• Also known as Decentralized System.
21. ProblemswithDecentralizedSystem
• Numerous information system are developed individually
over the time.
• Integrating the data becomes time and money consuming.
Inconsistences and duplication of data.
• High inventory, material and human resource cost.
23. CentralizedSystem:Keyobservation
• Data is maintained at a central location and is shared with
various Departments.
• Departments have access information/ data of the other
Departments/ BU/
24. CentralizedSystem:Keyobservation
• Eliminates the duplication and discontinuity in data.
• Provides information across departments in real time.
• Provides control over various business processes.
• Increase Productivity, better inventory management, promotes
quality, reduced material cost, boosts profits.
• Better customers interaction, increased output
• Improves customer service
25. History of ERP Systems
1960s
• Inventory
Managemen
t and Control
1970s
• Material
requirement
Planning
• (MRP)
1980s
• Manufacturing
requirement
planning
• (MRP II)
1990s
Enterprise
Resource
Planning (ERP)
2000s
Extended ERP
or ERP II
26. Inventory Management & Control
The activities of inventory management include,
• Identifying inventory requirements.
• Setting targets.
• Monitoring item usages.
• Reconciling the inventory balances.
• Reporting inventory status.
27. Material Requirements Planning (MRP)(the 1970s)
In the 1970s, MRP is evolved to meet the manufacturing
industries’ requirements. It generates schedules for operations
and raw material purchases.
Scheduling is based on,
• Production requirements for finished goods.
• Current inventory levels etc.
28. Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)
(1980s)
• In the 1980s, vendors added some more manufacturing
processes to MRP to make the process easier and more
accurate. And this new system is named manufacturing
resource planning (MRP II).
• MRP II utilizes software applications. Applications for
coordinating manufacturing processes. Processes from product
planning, parts purchasing, inventory control to product
distribution.
29. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
(1990s)
ERP integrate business activities across functional departments.
Departments including,
• Product planning.
• Parts purchasing.
• Inventory control.
• Product distribution, fulfillment, to order tracking.
30. ERP software systems may include application modules for supporting,
• Marketing.
• Finance.
• Accounting.
• Human resources.
31. Extended ERP or ERP II
They provide anywhere anytime access to resources of the organization and
their partners; additionally, they integrate with newer external business
modules such as
• supply chain management,
• customer relationship management,
• sales force automation (SFA),
• advanced planning and scheduling (APS), etc.
34. ERP enabled Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
• redesign of business processes
• the process of examining current processes and redesigning those
processes to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of an
organization is called BPR
36. E-Business and ERP
ERP E-Business
better for sharing structured or transaction data are better for sharing unstructured data and
collaboration
focus was on internal data integration focus was on external integration
(interorganizational)
whereas ERP is adaptive technology* e-Business is a disruptive technology*
ERP focus has been on integrating the functional
silos of an organization into an enterprise
application.
e-Business technology focus has been on linking a
company with its external partners and
stakeholders
On the other hand, ERP technology has been
successful in integrating business processes across
the functional spectrum of the organization
focused on market growth by selling products and
services to new consumers and markets.
37. ERP and E-Business
• Business strategy alignment
ERP
Internal Process
(Goal: Integration
and efficiency)
E Business
External Process
(Goal: Integration
and effectiveness)
40. Logical Architecture Physical Architecture
supporting the requirements of
the end users
focuses on the efficiency (cost,
response time, etc.) of the
system.
44. • increase customer access to products and services,
• reduce operating costs,
• respond more rapidly to a changing marketplace,
• Improved access to data for operational decision making
• Upgrade of technology infrastructure
45. Another goal of ERP system is to integrate departments and functions
across an organization onto a single infrastructure that serves the
needs of each department
46. Assignment No. 1
Discuss the role of ERP in organizations. How can the
use of ERP systems remove information or functional
silos in organizations?
• Assignment should be less than 300 words
• Due Date: 22 March, 2022
• Submit your assignment in hard copy (No color prints, No files)
Editor's Notes
Resource: a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.
Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal.
There are diff types of departments in business. There might be more.
E-business (electronic business) is the conduct of business processes on the internet. These e-business processes include buying and selling goods and services, servicing customers, processing payments, managing production control, collaborating with business partners, sharing information, running automated employee services, recruiting; and more.
Both e-Business and ERP technologies have pretty much evolved simultaneously, since the 1990s and both provide platform for systems integration or data sharing.
*e-Business is a disruptive technology, whereas ERP is adaptive technology. e-Business practically transformed the way business operates in terms of buying and selling, customer service, and its relationships with suppliers. This caused a lot of disruptions in organizational strategy, structure, power, and the like. ERP has emerged as an adapter by merging the early data processing and integration efforts within a large corporation.
The architecture of the ERP implementation influences the cost, maintenance, and the use of the system. A flexible architecture is best because it allows for scalability as the needs of the organization change and grow.
The logical architecture, focuses on supporting the requirements of the end users, whereas the physical architecture focuses on the efficiency (cost, response time, etc.) of the system. The logical architecture provides the database schemas of entities and relationships at the lowest tier, followed by the core business processes and business logic handled by the system at the second tier. The third tier provides details on the applications that support the various business functions built in to the ERP system. The end users do not ever see the first and second tiers because they interact primarily with the client–user interface application tier that provides them access to the functional applications.
The logical architecture provides the database schemas of entities and relationships at the lowest tier, followed by the core business processes and business logic handled by the system at the second tier. The third tier provides details on the applications that support the various business functions built in to the ERP system. The end users do not ever see the first and second tiers because they interact primarily with the client–user interface application tier that provides them access to the functional applications.
