1. Enterprise Resource Planning
- Presented by Rinkal Hirani
Session 3

2. Session 3 Typical Business Functions
Functional process modules within an ERP
A business process is a collection of related structural activities that produce a specific outcome for a particular customer.
A business process is a recipe for achieving a commercial result. Each business process has inputs, method and outputs. The inputs are a pre-requisite that must be in place before the method can be put into practice. When the method is applied to the inputs, then certain outputs will be created.
A business process can be part of a larger, encompassing process and can include other business processes that have to be included in its method.
A business process can be thought of as a cookbook for running a business; "Answer the phone", "place an order", "produce an invoice" might all be examples of a Business Process.

3. Marketing and Sales Function
M/S HR
A/F
SCM
Customer
Legal Requirements
Sales Order
Hiring needs
Order Status
Sales Forecasts and Sales Order
Sales order data
Cost /Profit Analysis
Product data and Order Status

4. Supply Chain Management Function
SCM HR
M/S
A/F
Supplier
Legal Requirements
R/m Availability and delivery
Order for new R/m and Packaging
Hiring needs
Product data and Order Status
Prod. Plans, materials and Inventory
Sales Forecasts and Sales Order
Sales data and Manufacturing cost Analysis

5. Accounting and Finance Function
A/F HR
M/S
SCM
Customer
Legal Requirements, Payroll and benefits exp. data
Payments
Invoices and Credit Memo
Hiring needs and emp. Info.
Cost/profit Analysis
Sales data and Manufacturing cost Analysis
Prod. Plans, materials and Inventory
Sales order data

6. Human Resources FunctionHR
M/S
A/F
SCM
Legal Requirements and Job Info.
Legal Requirements and Job Info.
Hiring needs and emp. Info.
Hiring needs and emp. Info.
Legal Requirements, Payroll and benefits exp. data
Hiring needs and emp. Info.

7. Business Process – A Supply Chain Case
Suppliers
Intra-Company
Fabrication
Assembly
Retailers
Distributors
Consumers
Commercial Buyers
Information Flow
Material Flow
Features:
Independent systems to manage the interaction between players in the supply chain.
Great operational flexibility -
Problems -forecasting uncertainty, visibility limited.
Conventional
Supply chain

8. Supply Chain with Features: Integrated information
Suppliers
Intra-Company Fabrication
Assembly
Retailers
Distributors
Consumers
Commercial Buyers
Information Flow
Material Flow
Web Order Processor
ERP System
Features:
Integrated information
System optimization possible
Problems - inflexible - need a much more formal infrastructure to support the system.
Supply Chain with

9. Functional process modules within an ERP
Financial Module
Manufacturing Module
HR Module
Materials Management Module
Production Planning Module
Plant Maintenance Module
Quality Management Module
Purchasing Module
Marketing Module
Sales and Distribution Module