Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Module Offerings
6603TECYPC-SEP-PAR
Aims
To give an integral model overview of the relationships and necessary interplay between diverse processes that must co-exist in a business, and to appreciate the workings of a typical business control package designed to represent these and other functions.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Recognise the business processes diversity
2.
Connect different business processes to produce a model of a whole business.
3.
Develop a business model application on proprietary software.
4.
Generate meaningful management information using standard industry software
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Creating a business process map
Descriptions and modelling of Business Sub-processes
Production – Scheduling and Work-structure - (Bill of materials)
Sales, Customer Order processing – (Sales ledger)
Accounts – asset management - (Nominal ledger)
Purchasing – Supplier Management - (Purchase ledger)
Warehousing – order filling - (Stock)
and how to connect these together to demonstrate the management of a customer order from receipt to delivery and invoice.
Exploration of the SAGE Accounts Software (Business Control system) to understand workings, in particular how a customer order is processed via material acquisition, allocation, value adding processes, storage & distribution, delivery, invoicing, cash management, supplier order management, customer order management.
Use of SAGE data to generate useful management information.
Revisit to self built model to critically appraise differences between it and SAGE.
Additional Information:This module provides students with an overview of the relationships and necessary interplay between diverse processes and operations that co-exist in a business, and to appreciate the working of a typical business control package. The coursework required the students to analyse business process and SAGE functionality.