University Business Process Management: ERP & BPMS Analysis Report

This report delves into the comparison of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Process Management Systems (BPMS), highlighting their differences and similarities. It explores how ERP can support organizational business requirements, especially in supply chain management, logistics, procurement, and performance monitoring. The report emphasizes the advantages of combining ERP and BPMS, showcasing their roles in automating processes, resource allocation, and enhancing efficiency within an organization. It discusses ERP's role in supply chain management, including filtering market research, production cycle efficiency, and performance monitoring through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The report also covers how ERP aids in procurement processes, offering insights into how these technologies can be used to increase cost and time efficiency across various business operations.

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Q1. Discuss the differences and similarities of ERP and BPMS. What are the ways in
which ERP and BPM can be the advantageous combination to businesses?
The term ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning is a software based technology that
allows the business authority to assess the existing production, supply, resource and cost
efficiency while automating the most profitable and sustainable business processes. The
major operation of ERP is scheduling, resource allocation, financial controls and even
consumer relationship management. On the other hand, BPMS or Business Process
Management System is a process focused monitoring and assessment system that allows
increasing the efficiency of the business process without interfering the current state end-to-
end process documentation within the core process plan of any business organisation (Vom
Brocke, Petry & Gonser, 2016). The major similarities of both of these technologies are both
are used in management operation and automatic assessment and improvement system, both
BPMS and ERP technologies are used to plan the process based relationships and the value
transaction. However, BPMS and ERP technology have some major differences between
them because of their implementation and the process of execution. BMPS is more process-
focused system and the ERP is limited to organisational functions and practical operations.
In any business industry, ERP can be very helpful, if an organisation wants to
automate their business functions such as logistics, intake, process operation, cost allocations,
in order to increase the efficiency of the operations by enhance the profitable cardinality of
these functions. Similarly, along with the ERP, by using BPMS a company can easily
formulate their most profitable interconnection and dependency of various business
processes, such as management, control, evaluation, research, production by effective
planning and implementation (Balko & Vasudevan, 2014). Using both these systems and
technologies simultaneously, a company can operate their integrity of business operations and
the efficiency of the functions.

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Q2. How ERP system support the organisations business requirements with its supply
chain including logistics, procurement, and performance monitoring processes?
ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning technology can be useful in the logistics,
procurement, monitoring and quality management operation by automating and controlling
the resources and the efficient utilisations. For supply chain management, an ERP system can
be connected to the manual entry of spreadsheet to stop any reputation or redundancies
(Leon, 2014). It can be also very helpful to filter market research to find the most effective
supply chain management automatically. In production cycle the ERP can assess the
efficiency of the life cycle through virtually executing the planned life cycle model. It can
also find the most effective amendments to achieve the desired profitability.
ERP is also helpful in performance monitoring process with the intervention of the
scorecard analysis under the concerns of the Key Performance Indicators (KPI). By utilising
the ERP system in monitoring an organisation can easily chose the most effective procedure
or efficient employee by simply calibrating the outcomes virtually through ERP system.
Procurement is another essential process of any organisation that consists of the analysis of
existing condition, finding the scope of improvement, determining the required resources and
planning of the most effective resource collection process (Tian & Xu, 2015). Surprising in
all of these operation ERP system can help the business authority to execute the process by
spending less amount of workforce ant time. Moreover, the ERP or Enterprise Resource
Planning system can be used in each of every individual business operation to increase their
cost and time efficiency.

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Reference:
Balko, S., & Vasudevan, K. (2014). U.S. Patent No. 8,849,747. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent
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Leon, A. (2014). Enterprise resource planning. McGraw-Hill Education.
Tian, F., & Xu, S. X. (2015). How Do Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Affect Firm
Risk? Post-Implementation Impact. Mis Quarterly, 39(1).
Vom Brocke, J., Petry, M., & Gonser, T. (2016). Business process management. In A
Handbook of Business Transformation Management Methodology (pp. 137-172).
Routledge.