Assignment 1

Deadline: Tuesday 24/9/2022 @ 23:59

[Total Mark for this Assignment is 8]

Integrated Enterprise Systems

IT402

College of Computing and Informatics

Question One

2 Marks

Learning Outcome(s):

CLO 1

Explain and analyze business processes within small, medium and large corporate enterprise.

Provide the difference between Slack time and Cycle-time efficiency. There are how many ways to compute the Cycle time? Explain only one way.

Question Two

2 Marks

Learning Outcome(s):

CLO 4

Manage resources and finance of corporate enterprise IT systems.

Explain the difference between direct costs, indirect costs, fixed costs, and variable costs, provide a real-world example explaining each of the above. (Every student should provide a different example).

Question Three

2 Marks

Learning Outcome(s): CLO2

Design secure and flexible information and communication architectures that support the changing needs of the business.

Suppose there is a company that does all the work manually and has a particular system in each department. After spending a period of time, they wanted to automate all the company's functions and operations, and they decided to apply the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to their organization. Why did they determine to use the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system instead of manually working?

Question Four

2 Marks

Learning Outcome(s):

CLO1

Explain and analyze business processes within small, medium and large corporate enterprise.

Based on scenario in question 3, what are the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) benefits, and why they found it essential?