ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

Multiple Choices:

Q1. Enterprise Resource Planning is

1. Computer System

2. Manufacturing organization

3. Method of effective planning of all the resources in an organization

4. None of the above

Q2. Enterprise Resource Panning vendors are those people

1. Who are experts in administration and management of projects

2. Who have developed the ERP packages

3. Who uses the ERP system

4. None of the above

Q3. Interviewing and cost justification is tool and technique of

1. Design step of ERP

2. Implementation step of ERP

3. Requirement analysis of ERP

4. Planning step of ERP

Q4. Support re-engineering processes to fit the software systems best practice is approach of

1. Re-engineering approach

2. Customizing approach

3. Rational approach

4. None of the above

Q5. Process of tracking customer contacts and providing the customer with a price quote is

1. Inventory sourcing

2. Sales order processing

3. Pre-sales

4. None of the above

Q6. The difficulty in creating an audit trial of transactions when multiple transactions use multiple database is associated with

1. Product profitability sub-system

2. Finished goods inventory sub-system

3. Management reporting sub-system

4. Creating an audit trial sub-system

Q7. Differences occur between standard costs and actual costs is problem associated with

1. Accounting

2. Production

3. Purchasing / Materials Management

4. None of the above

Q8. MRP in Enterprise resource planning stands for

1. Maximum retail price

2. Material requirement planning

3. Management requirement planning

4. None of the above

Q9. Process of providing status of purchase order comes in a category of

1. Purchase order follow-up

2. Source determination

3. Determine requirement

4. Invoice verification

Q10. Resource failure occurs when

1. People clashes

2. Inability to communicate with the system user

3. Poor specification of requirements

4. Conflicts of people, time and project scope due to insufficient personnel

Part Two:

1. What are the advantages of the re-engineering method of implementing ERP?

2. What are the benefits reported from implementing ERP?

3. Write a short note on “Credit Management”?

4. Define Material Requirements Planning?

5. What factors should it use to evaluate each of these potential hosts?

6. What controls should be in place to monitor the hosting arrangement?

7. Identify potential sources of software?

8. Determine five criteria you will recommend be used to evaluate each of alternative providers?

1. Explain in brief Sales and Marketing Modules in ERP System?

2. What are the different development process in ERP systems and write a detailed note on it?