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Unit 5: ERP Modules

Accounting: Surfacing of costs associated with quality management actions. notes
In relation to the activities directly related to the act of monitoring quality management, ERP also
provides the following functions:
Quality Planning: Creation of plans to manage various quality inspection procedures.
Quality Inspection: Scheduling of quality inspection activities, generate documents resulting
from inspections, collect and analyze quality data, suggest corrective or follow up measures.
Quality Controls: Establish benchmark quality standards and sample groups of information,
generate statistical tools to monitor and evaluate quality compliance, development of corrective
task plans.

5.6 production planning and material management

This function is used for entering planning data related to the entire organization.
Model-supported simulations can be carried out based on this planning data as well as on
actual data. The resulting company planning data can be provided to the company units as
performance targets. Integration of the operational ERP applications permits group-wide
investment controlling with investment programs and budgeting, investment monitoring of
ongoing measures, and depreciation simulation.

figure 5.2: materials management

5.6.1 materials management

Purchasing

Purchasing is a component of Materials Management (MM). The MM module is fully integrated
with other modules in the ERP System. It supports all phases of materials management: materials
planning and control, purchasing, goods receiving, inventory management, and invoice
verification.

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