In order to help an organization understand and properly use a new enterprise system, many companies hire trained project managers and experienced consultants to help with the installation process. What is this recommendation called?
100
This type of activities include inbound logistics, operations, and manufacturing, outbound logistics, marketing and sales, and customer service.
What are core activities?
100
Business activities that enable the primary activities to take place
What is support activities?
100
Applications that integrate business activities across departmental boundaries
What is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)?
100
An information system that integrates business activities across departmental boundaries, including planning, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and so on.
What is E.R.P. (which stands for?)?
200
Secure Executive Sponsorship
Which recommendation reflects the importance of executive leadership?
200
Business activities that enable the primary activities to take place, including administrative activities, infrastructure, human resources, technology development, and procurement.
What are support activities?
200
Raw materials, subcomponents, and accessories are produced based on forecasts
What is make-to-order process?
200
This business activity takes place in between inbound logistics and outbound logistics in an ERP System.
What is Operations?
200
Parts of ERP that support important internal activities of the organization for producing their products and services, such as: financial management, operations management, human resource management.
What are ERP Core Components?
300
Thoroughly Train Users
Which recommendation is vital to giving employees sufficient time to learn the new system?
300
A collection of interlocking company value chains - in which information flows from one company's value chain to another company's value chain.
What is value system?
300
These activities include the creation of marketing literature, communication with potential and existing customers, and pricing of goods and services
What is marketing and sales activities?
300
Business Process Managing became very popular in the 1990's but prior to this it had was known by a different name.
What is Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)?
300
The components of an ERP that support the primary external activities of an organization for dealing with suppliers and customers
What is ERP Extended Components?
400
Evolving the ERP architecture
This change to using SOA architecture reflects which of the five recommendations?
400
Older stand-alone computer systems within an organization with older versions of applications that are either fast approaching or beyond the end of their useful life within the organization/
What is legacy system?
400
Purchasing of goods and services that are required as inputs to the primary activities
What is Procurement Activities?
400
The purpose of suppliers selling ERP systems as packaged software.
What is the ability to appeal to many different companies.
400
A software architecture in which business processes are broken down into individual components (or services) that are designed to achieve the desired results for the service consumers (which can be either an application, another service, or person)
What is SOA (Service-orientated architecture)?
500
Take a Multidisciplinary Approach to Implementations
Maintaining the importance of the ERP at all levels is referred to as which recommendation?
500
An information flow consisting of information received from another organization, such as from a supplier.
What is upstream information flow?
500
Companies accomplish creating additional value by integrating internal applications with suppliers, business partners, and customers through this.
What is value system?
500
ERP applications make accessing information easier by providing this type of repository
What is central information repository?
500
Secure executive sponsorship + get help from outside experts + thoroughly train users + take a multidisciplinary approach to implementations + look beyond ERP = ?
What is the formula for Enterprise System success?