Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Practical
Tutorial
Module Offerings
5609TECYPC-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 diversity of business processes
2.
Connect different business processes to produce a model of a whole business
3.
Develop a business model application on proprietary 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 Business Control system to understand workings, 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 any relevant tools to generate useful management information.
Additional Information:This module provides students with an overview of the relationships between diverse processes and operations that co-exist in a business, and to appreciate the working of a typical business control package. The coursework requires the students to analyse business process and generate useful management information using relevant tools.