Assignment: Integrated Enterprise Systems

Question 1

Say how the functional organizational structure can cause an obstacle to an efficient running of enterprise processes?

How reengineering business processes or having an integrated enterprise system can help resolve the difficulty facing a functional organizational structure?

Question 2

Let's consider an enterprise called EastAprons. EastApronsproducesaprons and resells accessories.

EastAprons sells aprons and accessories to a network of customers (dealers throughout KSA and individual customers). It procures raw materials for aprons from a variety of suppliers, acquires ready-made accessories from a set of manufacturers and it has a network of investors and creditors that support its finance.

1. Propose a value system level model for EastAprons.

2. Assuming that the various activities that need to be performed in the manufacturing process are considered labor operations, draw an overall value chain level diagram.

3. Zoom-in on the previous value chain model to specify the paired events within each process showing that duality relationships are the glue that binds a firm's separate economic events together into rational economic processes.

Question 3

Answer these questions separately:

1. What are the differences between Entity-Relationship (ER) Diagram notation and Entity-Relationship (ER) Grammar notation?

2. Based on payroll process on the value chain model of RSWS (textbook example), there are two economic exchange events: labor acquisition and cash disbursement.

a. Create ER Diagram for these two events?
b. Write ER grammar for the above economic exchange events?

Question 4

What are the steps to create a REA Business Process Level Model?