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notes 3. Gaining business unit buy-in
4. Achieving data integrity

5. Retiring dozens or even hundreds of discrete systems
6. Meeting regional legal and regulatory requirements
7. Achieving high system availability through high-bandwidth connections
8. Maintaining business as usual during the transition
9. Providing consistent global technical support

Task Can you give one single example of ERP enabled organization how they satisfy
their customer with the help of ERP?

1.9 integrated management information

In any information system there is a logical flow of information that is, in any information
system, data supplied to the system (input), are manipulated (processed) and transformed into
information (output). The simple IPO (Input – processed – output) model has been used.

Input Processed Output

Through the processing technology of information system data has been transformed into useable
information.

Data Processing technology Information

Management Information System (MIS) is an integrated information system, which is one of
the popular subsystem or technology used in ERP. It is defined as the management information
system (MIS) a system, which provides information supports for the decision – making in the
organization. The MIS may be depicted by IPO model. i.e. people follow procedures to manipulate
data and produce information.
The MIS elements are TP (transaction process), RS (reporting system), DSS (Decision supports
system).
1. TP is a collection, storage and processing of data and day – to day operational system
2. RS is providing report based on business rules and procedures
3. DSS is a system for providing information to help the management with new unstructured
decision – making
This provides needs of managers at operational level of organization and working environment
is isolated. They operate at the department level and only provides predefined information. This
system provides different reports, which are based on specified business rules. As it provides the
information only in the form of reports, it has several limitations.

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