MIS 15-Management Information Systems chapter 9

MIS 15-Management Information Systems chapter 9 Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 15e (Laudon) Chapter 9 Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications 1) From your reading of the chapter's opening case, Skullcandy chose enterprise resource planning software from which of the following ERP vendors? A) Oracle B) SAP C) IBM D) Microsoft E) Infor Global Solutions Answer: B Difficulty: Easy AACSB: Analytical thinking LO: 9-1: How do enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence? 2) Which of the following provides a suite of integrated software modules for finance and accounting, human resources, manufacturing and production, and sales and marketing that allows data to be used by multiple functions and business processes? A) Process management software B) ERP systems C) Groupware D) CRM software E) Supply chain management systems Answer: B Difficulty: Moderate AACSB: Information technology LO: 9-1: How do enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence? 3) Enterprise software is built around thousands of predefined business processes that reflect: A) government regulations. B) industry benchmarks. C) best practices. D) cutting edge workflow analyses. E) the firm's culture. Answer: C Difficulty: Moderate AACSB: Information technology LO: 9-1: How do enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence? 1 4) Which of the following is not true about enterprise systems? A) Enterprise systems help firms respond rapidly to customer requests for information or products. B) Enterprise system data have standardized definitions and formats that are accepted by the entire organization. C) Enterprise software is expressly built to allow companies to mimic their unique business practices. D) Enterprise software includes analytical tools to evaluate overall organizational performance. E) Enterprise systems provide firm-wide information to help managers make better decisions. Answer: C Difficulty: Moderate AACSB: Analytical thinking LO: 9-1: How do enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence? 5) You have been asked to implement enterprise software for a manufacturer of kitchen appliances. What is the first step you should take? A) Rewrite the software to support the way the company's business processes work. B) Select the business processes you wish to automate. C) Map the company's business processes to the software's business processes. D) Map the software's business processes to the company's business processes. E) Select the functions of the system you wish to use. Answer: E Difficulty: Moderate AACSB: Analytical thinking LO: 9-1: How do enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence? 6) Which of the following enables a company to tailor a particular aspect of enterprise software to the way a company does business? A) Configuration tables B) Web services C) Data dictionaries D) Middleware E) Groupware Answer: A Difficulty: Moderate AACSB: Information technology LO: 9-1: How do enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence? 2 7) In order to achieve maximum benefit from an enterprise software package, a business should: A) customize the software to match all of its business processes. B) use only the processes in the software that match its own processes. C) change the way it works to match the software's business processes. D) select only the software that best matches its existing business processes. E) retain legacy systems that best work with the software. Answer: C Difficulty: Moderate AACSB: Information technology LO: 9-1: How do enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence? 8) Implementing enterprise software from Oracle enabled Alcoa to achieve all of the following except: A) reduce requisition-to-pay cycle times. B) reduce accounts payable transaction processing. C) centralize financial activities. D) centralize procurement activities. E) obtain lower prices for raw materials. Answer: E Difficulty: Challenging AACSB: Analytical thinking LO: 9-1: How do enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence? 9) Manufacturing and production processes include all of the following except: A) procurement. B) material requirements planning. C) quality control. D) transportation execution. E) product configuration. Answer: E Difficulty: Challenging AACSB: Analytical thinking LO: 9-1: How do enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence? 10) Enterprise systems include analytical tools. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: Easy AACSB: Information technology LO: 9-1: How do enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence? 11) An enterprise system can help reduce redundant business processes. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: Easy AACSB: Information technology L