BCO5501 Business Process Engineering

Introduction

The work of a business processor is to design and implement a system that promotes organization’s overall efficiency as well as to reduce company costs. BPR constitutes a lot of change and not just helping with company costs. When it comes to BPR a lot of changes are made which includes the organization structures the management systems and much more. As a processor, there is need to learn how to focus on new business processes and to also be able to diagnose and fix any problems with a company’s current methodology and be able to redesign it. The success of a BPR can result in not only a reduction in company costs and spending but it can also create massive improvements in quality customer service and other business endeavors that could be improved. How BPR works is that it refocuses on customer needs, redesign core processes as well as to reorganize a business into cross functioning groups with an end to end responsibility. The BPR will be rethink basic organization and issues of the people and to help improve business processes across the organization.

A Successful BPR can really cut unnecessary company spending and focus on what is most important with the company products which is quality and improve also on the needs of the customer as well. One can also help develop better methods that can assist with making a lot better products and cut down on company spending which in turn will not force the company to charge high prices for their products and services. It can also increase the competition with other competitors for their business as well.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can be defined as collection of management software that integrates businesses in managing different functions like product planning, purchasing, inventories, supplier, customer service, sales, marketing, accounting and order tracking into a cohesive database. ERP systems in a company are concerned with the managing and the integrating the important part of the business. ERP is a real-time monitoring of business functions and permits timely analysis of quality, availability, customer satisfaction, performance, profitability and so on.

Diagram of SAP R/3

SAP

ERP systems integrate all data and processes of an organization into a unified system. A typical ERP will use multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve the integration. A key ingredient of most ERP systems is the use of a unified database to store data for the various system modules. In an organization it can be viewed as the system to run and handle all the daily works and data on daily basis with full efficiency and escaping the data redundancy. An ERP software solution seeks to streamline and integrate operations, processes and information flows in an enterprise. The role of an ERP in organizations is to integrate departments and allow them to function as a single infrastructure that serves the needs of each department.

A BPR is the process of a group of activities or tasks that has been coordinated to achieve a business goal. When an organization implement an ERP system it does brings forth Business Process Reengineering (BPR).

Among the different components of ERP system people factors can be termed as most critical component in the implementation process. As the organization is run by the people and the system and the business is also remains under the employees. Employees at different levels and management are the users and this directly affects the ERP system. The implementation directly depends on how much knowledge the employees has about this system and the level of interest and effort they show on using the system. The decision to implement an ERP systems will be of the employees and also the willingness to change the business practices using this system. An ERP system will be successful only when the people in the organization are willing to accept the possibility to change and business reform.

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