Inventory, Warehouse and Process Integration Reflection Paper

Inventory, Warehouse and Process Integration
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Inventory, Warehouse and Process Integration
Inventory and warehousing management are an important aspect of any business. These departments make up the essential building blocks of the entire organization and are just as important in business operations. Integration of this elements to other departments such as accounting and administration helps towards achieving a streamlined and effective approach to day-to-day operations ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "abstract" : "This paper presents a framework for assessing the business benefits of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. After analyzing the features of ERP systems, the literature on IT benefits, data from 233 ERP-vendor success stories published on the web, and interviews with 34 ERP cases, we have produced a consolidated framework of five benefit dimensions. This framework tries to classify the types of benefit that organizations can achieve by using ERP systems and provide a comprehensive foundation for planning, justifying, and managing the system. The framework focuses on benefits only, from the point of view of management as stakeholders; it does not consider costs.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Shang", "given" : "Shari", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Seddon", "given" : "Peter B", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "AMCIS 2000 Proceedings", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2000" ] ] }, "page" : "1005-1014", "title" : "A Comprehensive Framework for Classifying the Benefits of ERP Systems", "type" : "paper-conference" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=e91c33af-a20b-468d-9318-a74017095bd0", "/documents/?uuid=7a89b1c4-10e0-46a8-bb8a-db7ae9da16d5" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Shang & Seddon, 2000)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Shang & Seddon, 2000)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Shang & Seddon, 2000)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Shang & Seddon, 2000). Interdepartmental integration of Inventory and warehouse management can be achieved through a standalone warehouse management system or a system wide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System. Back in the day, Companies need not use integrated systems, and these two entities could practically be run separately and still meet customer expectations. That is not the case nowadays as customers expectations are higher, and the economic climate demands that firms mitigate costs in order to remain competitive ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "DOI" : "10.1108/02635570210414640", "ISBN" : "1463715051061", "ISSN" : "0263-5577", "abstract" : "Two distinct phases of ERP have been identified. The first phase refers to the changes that an organization undergoes in transforming from the old system and \u201cgoing live\u201d with the ERP system. The second phase, also called the second wave of ERP, refers to the actions subsequent to ERP implementation, that e...