Business Information System (Chapter 9)

BIS Chapter 9

1.        Which of these tasks (one or more) would be part of an Enterprise Resource Planning system?

·         Procurement

·         Accounting

·         Finance

·         Human Resources

·         Sales

·         Logistics

·         Customer Relationship Management

2.      Select what characteristics an Enterprise Resource Planning system should have?

·         Comprehensive

·         Beyond the Company

·         Flexible

·         Modular

3.      Briefly describe what Enterprise Resource Planning is? 

·         Enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single IT system (or integrated set of IT systems) so that employees can make decisions by viewing enterprise wide information on all business operations.

·         Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) enables employees across the organization to share information. 

4.      Which of the following are parts of the Extended ERP components?

·         Customer Relationship Management

·         Business Intelligence

·         Supply Chain Management

5.      An Enterprise Resource Planning system has many benefits.  Please list some of the benefits below?

·         Integrate financial information

·         Integrate customer order information

·         Standardize and speed up manufacturing processes

·         Reduce inventory

·         Standardize human resource information