EMS and MIS
There is a qualitative
change in the MIS design due to the complexity of the business operations and
the risk involved in handling the business.
The management focus is shifting form the function to the
process, i.e., the management requires the information support in the process
management and not in the functions management.
The process definition now goes beyond the organization
boundary. It connects the
organization to other agencies. The
emphasis is on the automation of processes with a strong Information Technology
implementation.
The MIS is now required to maximize the process productivity
and performance. The decision making support is required for the process
optimization. The decision models are built across the business management
functions. Besides the normal MIS reports required for the top management, the
Top Management also needs a set of the additional reports, where the critical
business processes and the critical success factors are a focus area.
The ERP solution caters to this requirement very early. The
ERP solution is an integrated solution. The solution operation is seamless,
disregarding the hardware or the software platform. The ERP solution takes care
of data integrity and consistency across the organization, which may have
multiple locations.
The ERP design provides transparency to the users of
information giving them an access to the sensitive information to locate, define
and resolve the problems. The ERP enables the work group management efficiently
and effectively. The effect uses of
the variety of tools, like the data replication, the work flow automation, the
EDI/E-mail, the data warehousing, the EIS, the bar coding, and the paging
systems are built in ERP. The
effective use of these variety of tools also speeds up processing, cuts down the
operation cycle time and raises the ability of the management to take decisions.
Once the ERP is built in the organization, it takes care of the data, the
information and its storage and, therefore, provides the capability to modify
the Management Information System from time to time as per the changing
information needs.
