Enterprise Business Processes and Reporting IS 6214

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Enterprise Business Processes and Reporting(IS
6214)

• MBS MIMAS 2008 / 2009
• Masters in Management Information
• and Managerial Accounting Systems

Fergal Carton Business Information Systems
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Enterprise Business Processes and Reporting

• Definition of business processes
• Different aims of organisational functions
• Key information resources shared by those
  functions
• Significance of data integrity
• Benefits of integration and standardisation
• Enterprise systems (ERP) benefits and challenges
• Revenue and expenditure cycles and accounting
• Reporting and data access in the enterprise
• The role of business intelligence tools
• Advanced Excel features for data manipulation
• Data import, data parsing, data export.
• Data functions (database, pivot table, formulae,
  )

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Lecturer contact details

• Name Fergal Carton
• Phone [phone]
• Office Room 2.113, ORB
• E-mail f.carton_at_ucc.ie

University College CorkColáiste na hOllscoile
Corcaigh
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Course Objective

• This module aims to provide students with an
  understanding of enterprise systems and their
  significance from an accounting perspective.
• In addition, skills for manipulating data for
  analysis, presentation and reporting purposes
  will be taught.

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Marking scheme

• A process mapping assignment
• Worth 50
• A reporting project
• Worth 50

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Recommended reading

• Mary Sumner, 2005, Enterprise Resource Planning,
  Pearson / Prentice Hall
• Ellen Monk and Bret Wagner, 2006, Concepts in
  Enterprise Resource Planning, 2nd ed, Thomson
• David L. Olson, 2004, Managerial Issues of
  Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, McGraw Hill

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Network Access Account Blackboard

• Wednesday 24th September 3 pm - 4 pm
• Thursday 25th September 3 pm - 4 pm
• Friday 26th September 3 pm - 4 pm
• Monday 29th September 11 am - 12 noon
• Tuesday 30th September 11 am - 12 noon
• Wednesday 1st October 10 am - 11 am
• Monday 6th October 3 pm - 4 pm
• Tuesday 7th October 10 am - 11 am
• Thursday 9th October 4 pm - 5 pm
• Friday 10th October 3 pm - 4 pm
• Monday 13th October 3pm - 4 pm
• Tuesday 14th October 3 pm - 4 pm
• Wednesday 15th October 11 am - 12 noon
• Thursday 16th October 2 pm - 3 pm

Boole lab 5, Boole Q-1 Open Access  Student IT
Centre.
http//www.ucc.ie/en/tcentre/StudentTraining
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This week

• What is a business process?
• Physical and virtual processes
• Meaning of integration?
• What is an enterprise application?
• Why automate business processes?

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A process is

• a systematic series of actions directed to some
  end to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
• a continuous action, operation, or series of
  changes taking place in a definite manner the
  process of decay.

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To process means

• to treat or prepare by some particular process,
  as in manufacturing.
• to handle (papers, records, etc.) by
  systematically organizing them, recording or
  making notations on them, following up with
  appropriate action, or the like to process mail.
  

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In business, a process is

• A sequence of tasks which completes one cycle of
  any business activity
• Manufacturing a product
• Selling a product
• Purchasing raw material
• Creating a Fixed Asset Register
• Paying a supplier
• Shipping a product

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Job shop vs. assembly line

• Quality vs. quantity
• Car manufacturer
• Sprinkler systems
• Computer storage products

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A process requires

• Someone to carry it out
• Some parameters
• Some master data
• Some communication
• Some deadlines

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Sample processes

• Registering as a student
• Buying and using top-up credit for phone
• Registering as a user for on-line services
• Getting educated
• Moving house

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Exercise

• Pick a business idea
• Describe customer requirements
• How these requirements can be met?
• What processes will the business need?
• What are the characteristics of a process?