Exam 7: Information Systems Within the Organization

Systems designed to integrate the activities in the third era of information systems are called __________systems.

Accounts receivable tasks include recording receivables, payments against receivables, account aging, and collections management.

ERP applications include a comprehensive set of inherent processes for all organizational activities that is sometimes called a business __________.

Manufacturing systems that combine MPS and kanban signals require sophisticated information systems to make them work.

Sunnydale Corporation developed a system that integrated finance and accounting. After a few months, it added Marketing to the new system, and a few months later, incorporated Sales into the system. It took three years, but eventually all of their departments were integrated into the new system. This is an example of a __________.

Since ERP vendors have experience in repeatedly implementing their business blueprints, they have now customized their standard blueprints to fit particular__________ like retailing, healthcare, and oil and gas.

Systems used to send email are__________ systems.

In ERP implementations, once a company has modeled its current business practices, the results are compared to a standard business __________, to determine how they are different.

Functional systems operate as islands of isolation.

__________is an example of a calculation system.

Functional systems like those for sales and accounting are designed to be easy to integrate in order to share data.

________applications are CRM components that are designed to generate sales prospects from a target market.

Isolated systems are inefficient and costly for organizations to operate.

A Bill of Material (BOM) is used in the operations systems to help schedule shipments.

________management has emerged to help organizations cope with the difficulty of implementing new cross- functional systems.

__________applications are used to track customer orders and schedule shipments.

In a(n)__________ manufacturing process, production plans are created from signals from customers that products or components are currently needed.

With functional systems, changes made in accounting are quickly replicated to finance.

It is__________ for organizations to choose to modify the standard blueprints for business processes when doing an ERP implementation.