Exam 5: Business Processes: Purchasing, Sales, and Payroll Cycles

Programming to customize the baseline system carry forward into later versions, saving some enterprises millions of dollars for customizations that do not need to be abandoned or redone.

A gap analysis is done to

Spice House Purchase Order Narrative On Monday of each week, a Spice House employee checks inventory using an inventory report. For items that are low, the employee processes a purchase order. The manager reviews and authorizes the purchase order. The Spice House database tables: Employee, Customer, Vendor, Purchase Order, Purchase Order Line, Item, Invoice, Invoice Line, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable -Create a business process map organizer for the Spice House Purchase Order narrative.

When receiving inventory, which table is usually NOT used?

Computer software may be programmed to run at a specific time each day to perform a task, such as, checking inventory stock levels.

Books Ga'Lore! Cash Sales Narrative Books Ga'Lore! sells books online and at retail stores. When a customer makes a cash purchase at a retail store, an employee generates a sales receipt and gives customer the receipt and items. Books Ga'Lore! uses the following database tables: Customer, Vendor, Inventory, Invoice, Invoice Line, Undeposited Funds -Annotate the Books Ga'Lore! Cash Payment narrative.

Which table would be used when processing a purchase order?

Nice Lawn Calculate Payroll Narrative Nice Lawn has an automated process for calculating payroll. On the appropriate date, the accounting system automatically calculates the gross pay, withholdings, and net pay for each employee. A Nice Lawn accountant then verifies the payroll before authorizing the pay. After the review, the accountant authorizes the payroll. -What are the activities in the Nice Lawn Calculate Payroll narrative?

The ________ module consists of transactions related to payroll.

The banking module includes transactions that relate to the payroll cycle.

Typically, the vendor module consist of the ________, ________, ________ components.

As business processes for a new system are planned, ________ management is also considered.

Typically, vendors mail the bill separately from the items shipped.

Nice Lawn Sales Narrative Nice Lawn sells lawn ornaments online to other businesses. Nice Lawn customers place an online order. Nice Lawn processes the customer order by verifying with the accounting department that the customer's credit is in good standing with the company (the customer's account is paid on time). The items are verified for availability. Shipping is authorized. The warehouse packages the items and sends them to the customer. The warehouse notifies the accounting department the items were shipped. An invoice is generated from the sales information and emailed to the customer. -What are the activities in the Nice Lawn Sales Narrative?

What is a workflow management system? Provide an example.

When customizing an accounting system, order in which work is performed must be considered.

The advantage to the stages approach to customizing an accounting system is that the new system goes "live" all at once.

Spice House Purchase Order Narrative On Monday of each week, a Spice House employee checks inventory using an inventory report. For items that are low, the employee processes a purchase order. The manager reviews and authorizes the purchase order. The Spice House database tables: Employee, Customer, Vendor, Purchase Order, Purchase Order Line, Item, Invoice, Invoice Line, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable -Create a BPMN diagram for the Spice House Purchase Order narrative.

Nice Lawn Calculate Payroll Narrative Nice Lawn has an automated process for calculating payroll. On the appropriate date, the accounting system automatically calculates the gross pay, withholdings, and net pay for each employee. A Nice Lawn accountant then verifies the payroll before authorizing the pay. After the review, the accountant authorizes the payroll. -What are the gateway(s)in the Nice Lawn Calculate Payroll narrative?

Spice House Receive Customer Payment BPMN -List the activities in the Spice House Receive Customer Payment BPMN diagram.