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ISBB Chapter8
ISBB Chapter8
Business Processes
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this chapter, you will be able to:
– Communication.
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Advantages of CRM Systems
• Allows track goals and metrics for sales,
marketing, and customer services.
• Increase customer retention
• Increase profitability
• Facilitate to identify “who are your customers”
• Permits to know “what is important to your
customers”
• Allows opportunity management
ERP and Supply Chain Management
• Supply chain management has been defined as the
"design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of
supply chain activities with the objective of creating net
value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging
worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand and
measuring performance globally.” (APICS 2013).
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Advantages of SCM Systems
• Secure accurate SCM metrics
• Help controlling bullwhip effect
• Facilitate visualization of SCM metrics
• Improve productivity
• Increase profitability
• Help to integrate value systems
Business Process Management
• The literature report three alternatives to
business process manage:
• Automatize
• Streamlining
• Built-in reporting.
• Enforcing consistency.
Business process reengineering
• Organizations look to manage their processes to gain a
competitive advantage.
• Companies should “blow up” their existing processes
and develop new processes that take advantage of the
new technologies and concepts.
• Do not optimize, obliterate (Hammer 1990.)
• BPR is fully understanding the goals of a process and
then dramatically redesigning it from the ground up to
achieve dramatic improvements in productivity and
quality.
How to do BPR (Hammer)
• Organize around outcomes, not tasks.
• Have those who use the outcomes of the process perform the
process.
• Subsume information-processing work into the real work that
produces the information.
• Treat geographically dispersed resources as though they were
centralized.
• Link parallel activities instead of integrating their results.
• Put the decision points where the work is performed, and
build controls into the process.
• Capture information once, at the source.
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Summary
• Define the term business process;
• Identify the different systems needed to support business processes in
an organization;
• Explain the value of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system;
• Explain how business process management and business process
reengineering work; and
• Understand how information technology combined with business
processes can bring an organization competitive advantage.