Ba 7301 erp q.b
- 1. 1 EASWARI ENGINEERING COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES BA 7301 – ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING Question Bank Part A 1. What is ERP? 2. What are the reasons for the growth of ERP market? 3. What are the advantages of ERP? 4. Why are ERP packages being used now? 5. What do you mean by Gap Analysis? 6. What is meant by lead-time? 7. What is meant by cycle time? 8. What do you mean by Customer satisfaction? 9. List any 3 measures to assess the degree of customer satisfaction. 10. What are the three fundamental characteristics of information? 11. What are the limitations of ERP systems? 12. Define BPR. 13. What are the different phases of BPR? 14. What is a data warehouse? 15. What are the advantages of a data warehouse? 16. What are the components of data warehouse? 17. What are the uses of a data warehouse? 18. What is data mining? 19. What are the technologies used in data mining? 20. What are the key features of OLAP? 21. What are the different phases of ERP implementation? 22. What is the purpose of pre-evaluation screening? 23. What is the objective of package evaluation?
- 2. 2 24. What is the purpose of project planning phase? 25. Explain gap analysis. 26. Explain the term executive committee. 27. Explain the term project management team. 28. Explain the term Work Team. 29. What is the function of the technical support team? 30. What is the job of administrative support team? 31. Why can’t the company carry out the ERP implementation by itself? 32. What are the skills required to implement ERP system? 33. Who is a vendor? 34. List out the roles of vendor. 35. Who is a consultant? 36. Are consultants going to be expensive? 37. Who is an end-user? 38. Define contract. 39. What is the main role of the members of the executive committee? 40. What should be the frequency of monitoring by the executive committee? 41. What is a business? 42. What are the resources used in Business? 43. What are the functions of entrepreneurs? 44. Define Financial Management 45. What are the subsystems of finance module 46. What are the subsystems of Treasury 47. Mention the use of Financial Accounting module 48. What is the use of a General Ledger? 49. What are the features of Controlling system 50. What are the modules of ERP packages. 51. Mention any 5 subsystems of Manufacturing module 52. What are the steps involved in Engineering Change Control? 53. What are the subsystems of HR Module
- 3. 3 54. What is the function of Recruitment Management 55. Define Travel Management 56. Define the functions of Salary administration 57. Mention the subsystems of a Plant Maintenance module 58. What are the functions of Plant Maintenance calibration tracking 59. What are the functions of Quality Management Module 60. Define Inventory Planning 61. Mention the five vendors of Top-tier 62. Give an overview of R/3 63. Mention the three tiers of R/3 64. Define Application Layer 65. Define Presentation Layer 66. Mention any 5 R/3 Modules 67. What are the features of Investment Management 68. Define Project system 69. Define Quality Management 70. Give the functions of Dynamic Form Editor 71. Define Electronic commerce 72. Mention the job of the Business Engineer 73. Mention some areas of PeopleSoft’s business management solutions 74. List any 5 business units of PeopleSoft. 75. What is PeopleTools 76. What are the 4 phasing strategies of PeopleSoft Implementation Toolkit 77. List the components of BaanERP 78. Mention any 4 product modules available from JD Edwards 79. What is MFG/PRO 80. List the mission statements of SSA 81. What are the technologies that help in real-time business? 82. What are the limitations of ERP? 83. What are the functions provided by a Business intelligence system
- 4. 4 84. Mention any 3 implementation requirements of a successful business intelligence 85. What is EIA? 86. Mention the 2 flavours of EIA 87. List the leading ERP application providers 88. Mention the traditional business processes 89. What are the steps in Retail Fulfillment? 90. List the steps in Corporate Procurement 91. What are the tasks of SAP? 92. Mention any 3 processes of Baan 93. What are the compositions of HRNP 94. Mention some of the transactions performed on the Web 95. Define VPN 96. Define SSL 97. Define SET 98. List the major ERP vendors 99. List the products of major ERP vendors 100. List some of the business scenario changed by the Internet Part B 1. Explain the reasons for the growth of ERP market. 2. Briefly explain the benefits of ERP. 3. Explain the different phases of BPR. 4. What is a data warehouse? What are the advantages and uses of a data warehouse? 5. Explain the major components of a data warehouse. 6. Explain the structure of a data warehouse. 7. Briefly explain the obstacles to successful data warehouse projects. 8. What is data mining? Explain verification model and discovery model. 9. What are the rules of OLAP? Write the uses and benefits of OLAP. 10. Explain Supply Chain Management.
- 5. 5 11. Explain the different phases of ERP Implementation Lifecycle. 12. Briefly explain implementation methodology. 13. Explain the areas that most managers miss to account for in their budgets. 14. Briefly explain hidden costs. 15. Explain the organization of the implementation team. 16. Explain the pros and cons of in-house implementation. 17. Briefly explain the need and role of vendors, consultants and end-users. 18. Who all are the parties with whom the company should sign a contract? Explain. 19. Explain project management and monitoring. 20. Draw and explain the organizational chart of implementation team. 21. Describe the various business modules in an ERP package 22. Explain the various subsystems of Finance module of an ERP system 23. Describe Manufacturing process 24. How does Manufacturing respond to the customer? 25. Explain the various subsystems in the HR module 26. Describe Plant Maintenance Module subsystems 27. Explain the main modules of Materials Management module. 28. Give a detailed note on Quality Management 29. Explain the subsystems of Sales and Distribution module 30. What are the components of a good Warehouse Management Application? Explain them. 31. Give a detailed note on SAP and its advantages 32. Explain the modules of R/3 application 33. Describe the PeopleSoft Implementation toolkit. 34. Explain the emerging technologies that are developed by PeopleSoft 35. Explain BaanERP Tools 36. Describe the different product modules available from JD Edwards 37. Explain the various categories of Oracle Application Software modules. 38. Give a detailed note on MFG/PRO 39. Explain the various features of SSA
- 6. 6 40. Give an overview of R/3 system 41. Explain the guidelines for the implementation of a successful business intelligence front end to an ERP solution. 42. Describe Enterprise Integration Applications and its flavors. 43. Explain SAP AG 44. Explain ERP and E-commerce. 45. Describe the overview of how business is conducted over the Internet. 46. Explain the future directions in ERP 47. Describe ERP and Internet 48. Explain the workflows of E-commerce 49. Give a detailed note on EIA 50. Explain Convergence on Windows NT and Web Enabling.