Checkpoint: the Contributions of Enterprise Systems
Checkpoint: The Contributions of Enterprise Systems
IT/205
2/22/2011
The contributions of enterprise systems are the enforced standard practices within a company that reflects the best business decisions to ensure profitability. Enterprise systems are comprised of a suite of integrated software modules and a common central database that collects data from different departments so that information is widely available for better decision making. Organizational functions supported by enterprise systems are finance and accounting, sales and marketing, manufacturing and production, and human resource departments; all of which are integrated tool for a company’s internal processes for information; also as a tool for externally communicating with customers, suppliers, and other companies. In order for a company to achieve excellence, it must use enterprise systems effectively by ensuring that they adapt to the functionality of the software or that they rewrite the software to adapt to the company’s processes. Once the adaptation of the software is met, enterprise systems provide an increase in operational efficiency by providing company information to help managers make better decisions. Some decisions might be a new floor module or a new end-cap for a product because the data retrieved by the system is telling the manager that product is a hot commodity that needs to be easier attained by the customer. By using the enterprise system, companies achieve excellence by being able to respond rapidly to forever-changing information. The challenges that are posed by enterprise systems are the complex software that is expensive to purchase and utilize, the company’s adaptability to change, and the employee training that is necessary for new procedures and roles. Another challenge is that enterprise systems cannot provide value if they are implemented amongst flawed processes or if the company does not know how to use the enterprise system to
IT/205
2/22/2011
The contributions of enterprise systems are the enforced standard practices within a company that reflects the best business decisions to ensure profitability. Enterprise systems are comprised of a suite of integrated software modules and a common central database that collects data from different departments so that information is widely available for better decision making. Organizational functions supported by enterprise systems are finance and accounting, sales and marketing, manufacturing and production, and human resource departments; all of which are integrated tool for a company’s internal processes for information; also as a tool for externally communicating with customers, suppliers, and other companies. In order for a company to achieve excellence, it must use enterprise systems effectively by ensuring that they adapt to the functionality of the software or that they rewrite the software to adapt to the company’s processes. Once the adaptation of the software is met, enterprise systems provide an increase in operational efficiency by providing company information to help managers make better decisions. Some decisions might be a new floor module or a new end-cap for a product because the data retrieved by the system is telling the manager that product is a hot commodity that needs to be easier attained by the customer. By using the enterprise system, companies achieve excellence by being able to respond rapidly to forever-changing information. The challenges that are posed by enterprise systems are the complex software that is expensive to purchase and utilize, the company’s adaptability to change, and the employee training that is necessary for new procedures and roles. Another challenge is that enterprise systems cannot provide value if they are implemented amongst flawed processes or if the company does not know how to use the enterprise system to