COMM 226 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Enterprise Application Integration, Information Silo, Manufacturing Resource Planning
7 May 2015
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As a result of the single database, the processes can be integrated with one another. Before and after erp: before implementation, each department"s procurement process had three main activities create purchase order, receive goods, and accounting activities. The process was initiated by an actor in the department purchasing agent role. Every department at the university had a purchasing agent. The objective was to use reliable suppliers and, in the case of the athletic department, use boosters. No measures for evaluating the process existed: after implementing the erp system, a new procurement process provided by the. A purchase requisition is a po awaiting approval. The purchase requisition is approved by a university. The rest of the activities in this process remain the same. Rather than storing data in department information silos, the new erp process consolidates all the procurement data for the different departments in a central database.
