2. Systems Framework (Chapter 1)

2. Systems Framework (Chapter 1)

1. BUSINESS PROCESS VS. FUNCTIONS

   • Business process is where all the different divisions of an organisation all work together - Better than function!
   • Business function is where all the departments are separate from each other

2. FUNCTION: benefits - More specailised where everyone will know their job really well con - There isn't effective communication between different departments

3. PROCESS: Improved customer services, value adding, end-user perspective, competitive advantage through outsourcing

4. An ERP system is a set of computer program modules that attempts to integrate the different functional areas of the organisation. An ERP is designed based on best practice - the best way of performing a particular process

5. ISSUES IN MOVING TO A BUSINESS PROCESS: 1. Management change - support must come from the top. 2. People change - specialist jobs becoming generalists jobs

6. BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING (BPR): The fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service and speed

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