ERP and CRM Systems: Understanding Their Functions and Importance
What is ERP?
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) refers to a type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management, compliance, and supply chain operations.
- ERP systems tie together a multitude of business processes and enable the flow of data between them.
- Collects an organization’s shared transactional data from multiple sources, eliminates data duplication, and provides data integrity with a single source
Information Systems & Technology: A Deep Dive
1. Data, Information, and Systems
What are they?
Data: Raw materials like symbols, numbers, words, and images used to produce information.
Information: Data within a context, giving it meaning.
System: The mechanism that generates information.
2. Information Systems
Definition
A set of interacting elements supporting business activities.
3. Computerized Information System Elements
- Hardware: Computers and peripherals.
- Human Resources: People using and feeding data into the system.
- Data/Information: Inputs for
Project Planning: Optimal Plant Size, Location, and Layout
1. What is Macro Location and What are its Essential Features?
Macro location study aims to determine the region or territory in which the project will have influence with the media.
Factors to consider:
- Proximity and availability of raw materials
- Transport: inputs and outputs
- Maritime
- Railway
- Road
- Air
- Availability of public services
- Water
- Electricity
- Natural gas
- Telecommunications
2. Micro Location: What is it and What Factors Influence it?
Micro location is the study done for the purpose of selecting the community
Read MoreProduction Planning and Control: From Strategy to Scheduling
**Item 14: Planning and Production Control**
Operations Planning: Medium and Short Term
The process of planning and controlling production should follow a hierarchical approach in which vertical integration is achieved between the strategic and tactical objectives of the production system. It should also establish its horizontal relationship with other functional areas of the company. There are different hierarchical levels when making operations planning, depending on the horizon, but it is conditioned
Read MoreOptical Fiber Testing with OTDR and WDM Technology
Working Principle of OTDR
Light Pulse Injection:
The Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) uses a laser or LED to generate short, intense pulses of light, which are injected into the optical fiber under test.
Travel Through the Fiber:
The light pulse propagates through the fiber, encountering natural phenomena such as Rayleigh scattering and Fresnel reflection:
- Rayleigh Scattering: A small portion of the light is scattered in all directions due to microscopic variations in the fiber material.
- Fresnel
Educational Technology and Economics: Impact on Learning
Educational Technology: Definitions, Meaning, and Scope
The word “technology” is derived from the two Greek words, technic and logia. “Technic” means “art” or “skill,” and “Logia” means “science” or “study.” Therefore, the simplest meaning of technology is the “science of study of an art or skill.”
Definitions of Technology
- “Technology is knowledge organized for production.” – Sachs. I
- “Technology is the application of scientific knowledge to a practical purpose.” – Page T
- “Technology is the set of instruments