1. What is ERP? Please explain in your own understanding.
ANS.) Enterprise Resource Planning ERP representatives. It is all those systems which are connected to the various departments in excess of the software. It is business management software is usually the organization can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data in many commercial activities, including an integrated suite of applications: product planning, cost. Manufacturing or service delivery.
ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems typically include the following features:
An integrated system that operates in (or near) real time without relying on periodic updates. It supports all common database applications. Consistent look and feel across modules. Execution provided
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For the same (ERP) software, now all departments, individual departments do not need to purchase and maintain their own software systems are no longer necessary.
There are various modules in ERP systems such as finance / accounting, human resources management, manufacturing, marketing / sales, supply chain / warehouse management, customer relationship management, project management, etc.
3. What are the disadvantages of using an ERP system? Explain.
ANS.) ERP software cost, planning, customization, configuration, testing, implementation, etc. is too high. ERP implementation may be due to the additional indirect costs - such as the new IT infrastructure, upgrading WAN links.
ERP implementation is a difficult and different business processes and systems to achieve decentralized organization. Once the ERP system implementation it became a single vendor lock-in further escalation, custom and so on.
The company is in a single vendor's discretion, it may not be able to negotiate effectively for their services. User involvement is the successful implementation of ERP project is very important - so detailed user training and simple user interface could be
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Why do some companies still use legacy systems and do not move to ERP systems? Explain. ANS.) Legacy systems use outdated programming languages, software and / or hardware are typically no longer supported by the latest ERP software.
Some companies still using legacy systems, because they think they can spend a lot of conversion of data and key business processes, potential risks in a more advanced and modern mobile technology related business interruption.
We have seen the number of companies still rely heavily on decades-old legacy systems. Further complicate the situation, many companies have built through a series of mergers tend to manage the organization inherited from their predecessors is not compatible with the existing system.
In general, conventional systems often given insufficient resources properly maintained, even when upgrading to modern technology is not being seriously considered. Must blame policy makers and non-technical personnel in the organization who tend to think that they can continue to run in low-cost, underestimate the risks taken this approach
5. Name them major players in the ERP software market. Name 5 companies?
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The larger chain business should probably use an ERP because it offers more benefits to larger companies and would be able to keep large business processes running more smoothly. 6-2. If the freshman class for next year grew by 20%, the college would face many decisions and challenges with the system they already have set up. Challenges would be seen in on-campus housing, desk availability, registering, food services, and having enough teachers or resources for the influx of students.
One of biggest roadblock that companies have to face is to invest a lot of money on implementing a software system and have employees ignore it and keep trying to do the task in their own way. This the reason why the provider that you choose for implementing your software have to be a natural fit for the organization. If the owners and employees have the same passion and understanding of the product that they would implement the result would be a success (Phillips, 2016).
To repair the data in such environment, we confront two main challenges: 1. How to formally define the stability of the data, that is, how to measure the value in this cell is more stable than that in the other cells; 2. How to detect the violation when data continues changing. We define the stability by generating a history relation (or it is assumed to have) w.r.t the original database. The history relation keeps track of the updates history for every cell.
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They are “modular”in the sense of them being complete unto themselves and interchangeable into any larger “construction” also prepared to make use of its functionality. The analogy of interchangeable pieces of computer hardware designed to fit into different computer configurations is appropriate. There is also the added value of being able to visualize a program as a complex of of separate individual functions Execution Being able to task an individual programmer to complete one
The information revolution is sweeping through our economy. No company can escape its effects. Dramatic reductions in the cost of obtaining, processing, and transmitting information are changing the way we do business. “To get ahead in today’s business world, a company must utilize the right resources. One of the most effective, of course, is information technology (IT), which has become an essential tool for businesses across many industries” (2013).
With the use of this framework in reengineering its call centers and the automation of manual processes through call centers. Malaysia Airlines was able to achieve the following: Cutting call center costs by 18% and tripling sales, through phone, e-mail, fax, and web chat they were able to service customers, Interactive voice response or online ticket payment, and Tracking of agent productivity done by managers. In doing the following, they were able to streamline their processes. Malaysia Airlines measure the strategic metric. It measures the functional goals so that Malaysia Airlines can boost their customer payment capabilities.
To improve network communications between stores, head offices. Combine all stock databases into a single system on head office server, so staff can view the amount of stock and access most recent up to date data. This would drastically improve the communications between the several stores. To achieve this, all the individual LANS (Local area Network) from the stores must be connected to create a Wide area network, thus this WAN can be accessed through Telecommunications lease lines across the internet. Though for PVMS this type of method is expensive, but will significantly benefit from this change.
Task 1 Outcome 1: 1.1) a. The problem of using the manual system is high cost. And the manual system is not convenient at all for both staff and customers. Staff must record the data of all the things manually on the log book. The number of customers is increasing, so staff must to do more works or the library need to hire more staff.
Air Canada outsourced 95% of their IT services to multiple suppliers. This caused problems to the airline because if there is any problem with the outsourced system, it cannot be solved quickly. To deal with this problem, Air Canada assigned IBM to act as an integrator in which they had to integrate new applications with the existing applications. Even if IBM acted has an integrator, they were unable to fix major problems quickly. Some problems were very complicated to be identified which depends on the number of vendors involved in developing the system.
Only when the IT governance is designed around the enterprise’s goals and performance objectives, will it then be active and performant because it is consistent and can be communicated in the enterprise-wide system. Fixing problems one after the other as they occur is a good defensive strategy but which has negative setbacks on the IT strategic performance by limiting its value creation opportunities. Most enterprises failed because they have designed an IT governance system whose mechanisms are uncoordinated and are not in congruence with the organization’s goals which can then leads to excessive IT expenditure or architectural
Resource planning is the efficient and effective deployment and allocation of an organization 's resources when and where they are needed. Such resources may include financial resources, inventory, human skills, production resources, or information technology. Large organizations usually have a defined corporate resource planning process which mainly guarantees that resources are never over-allocated across multiple projects. Peter Drucker wrote of the need to focus resources, abandoning a less promising initiatives for every new project taken on, as fragmentation inhibits results.
Vested interest 5. Desire to retain existing friendships Preferred Alternative with Rationale Every business organization is not exempted to change, as both employees and the environment is also changing. This case study clearly point out the change of perception of whole organization; which is integrating computer on their daily operation. It is true that some may be resistance to this change due to several factors hindering them to adapt change in a positive perspective.
Relational Database Management System: This type of database management system that stores the data in the form of related tables. It is a social database administrator which deals with some typical kind of queries and uses SQL for the development of the database. This type of database is a very powerful database as it deals with the relations which makes the data manipulations easier other than any other database. It has the features of data entry, data deletion, and creating of new entry and records etc. the database provides the ease of accessing and maintaining data easily.
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM 1. Management information system is an organized portfolio of a precise system for getting, processing, and giving information in anchor of the business operations and management of an organization. Types of Management system that is able to employ competitive advantage: • Transaction processing system for operational data processing that is desired, for example, to register consumer orders and to outturn invoices and payroll. • Management reporting systems competent of making reports for limited time periods, designed for managers culpable for limited functions in a firm. • Decision support system expressly designed for the support of individual and conjoint decision making.