Computer Science 1032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Purchase Order, Lean Manufacturing, Financial Statement

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1032A/B
• Professor: Prof

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Chapter 2- business processes, information and decision making. Business process network of activities, resources, facilities and information that interact to achieve some business objective: aka. Inventory management processes, manufacturing processes, sales processes, and customer-support processes. Managing this inventory is a business process ensure that there is enough inventory to fulfill customers" requests while at the same time making sure there is not too much inventory. There are many different ways of represetnign a business process: understanding, modeling, redesigning business processes are a big part of what business analysts do. A business process consists of activities, resources, facilities and information. Resources: items of value: customers and suppliers are resources too but they are external and hence not under the restaurant"s direction and control. Facilities : structures used within the business process (ex. Inventories and databases) others are factories, pieces of equipment etc. Information activities use information to determine how to transform the inputs they receive into the outputs they produce.