Tasks: What is the most common Organizational Structure? How did the structure evolve? What are the benefits and drawbacks associated with the implementation of such a structure?
2. What is a functional information system? What is their value to an organization? What are their main drawbacks?
3. What is an enterprise information system? How do these systems differ from functional systems? What is their value to organization?
4. Explain the difference between the functional view and process view of Organizations. Why is the process view important today?
5. Within the procurement process what is a three way match used for? What is used to complete the match?
6. Explain the difference between a Bill of Material and Product Routing?
7. Identify some of the key problems associated with the manual, or paper-based, business process. How does an enterprise system eliminate or reduce the impact of these problems
8. Explain the difference between a Made to Order and Made to Stock strategy. What are the perceived advantages and disadvantages of each approach?
9. What impact has globalization had on an organization? How do they respond?
10. What does it mean when it is said that a product may have several views? What is a view and what are they used?
11. In the SAP environment, explain the difference between Organizational, Master and Transactional data? Provide examples. 12. Explain the four common material types in an ERP System.

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