Chapter 9, Problem 2IQ

Explanation of Solution

Enterprise Resource Planning:

• It is nothing but a planning that joins various departments and its functions all over an organization into a single information system.
• This planning helps the employees to make their decisions on viewing the wide enterprise information about various business operations.
• The main motive is to provide common database that supports various functions used by different business departments.
• Example: Consider the departments named sales and accounting that depend on the same data for their own needs.

JDA manufacturing systems:

JDA stands for “James Donald Armstrong who is the founder of the company.  JDA software provides supply chain management, planning for manufacturing and retailing, operation and collaboration management, etc...