Exam 10: Information Systems Within the Organization

If you want to implement an ERP system but cannot afford to make large investments in IT,________ ERP is a good solution.

Your southern region is not doing very well.You want to know why,so you ask for a special report showing the numbers for the southern region compared to the northern,eastern,and western regions.This is a(n)________ report.

ERP helps get rid of information silos caused by FAIS.

________ reports are produced at scheduled intervals.

________ is an approach that integrates various automated factory systems.

List and describe the six types of reports.Provide an example of how you could use each report as a manager.

A TPS supports the monitoring,collecting,storage,and processing of ________ from the organization's basic business transactions.

Financial,HR,and operations management are the core ERP modules.

The ________ process originates in the warehouse department and ends in the accounting department.

EAI systems are only useful if you don't have ERP implemented.

The Army is trying to ________ its legacy systems to _________.

TPSs have to efficiently handle both high volumes of data and large variations in those volumes.

Which of the following is NOT an interorganizational system?

________ is a more complex,integrated software that can handle money and labor in addition to production,purchasing,and inventory management planning.

How do ERP systems build upon and/or improve TPSs and FAISs? Why do businesses want to implement ERP? Why is it so difficult to implement ERP successfully? List and briefly describe five real-world ERP failures.

________ is an extended ERP module.

The planning process that integrates production,purchasing,and inventory management of interdependent items is called _________.

PLM is a POM function.

Organizations try to automate the TPS data entry as much as possible because of the large volume involved,a process called ___.

________ is a cloud-based ERP system.