ITM 330 Chapter 2: Chapter 2.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 330
• Professor: Selcuk Savas

Document Summary

An enterprise resource planning system can help a company integrate its operation by serving as a company wide computing environment that includes a shared database-delivering consistent data across all business functions in real time. Silos: a company would have marketing information system, a production information system, and so on each with its own hardware, software and methods of processing data and information. Each department has its own stack, or silo, of information that is unconnected to the next silo; silos are also known as stovepipes. Scalability: means that the capacity of a piece of equipment can be increased by adding new hardware. Database management system (dbms): the software that holds that data in an organized fashion and that allows for easy retrial of the data. Material requirements planning (mrp): is a production scheduling methodology that determines the timing and quantity of production runs and purchase order releases to meet ta master production schedule.