FICO Configuration Series – Part 1
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- Almost every other module affects FI/CO modules. Example: when a HR consultant runs the payroll incorrectly and posts it to the FI/CO modules, this affects the FI/CO consultants. So, FI/CO consultant mostly ends up reviewing all the financial updates to the system. As a FI/CO consultant, keep all this in your mind. So, the first thing you would ask yourself when you face a problem is which updates have come in from other systems J
What and Why ERP?
Companies can choose between buying packaged software and building applications from scratch to suit the organization’s needs.
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Buy Packaged Software |
Build Customer specific applications |
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Is the recent Trend |
Old fashioned |
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Customizing the software for company’s needs |
Develop Information systems that meet the specific requirement for the company |
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Better suited to meet the timeline based on experience |
Tedious process especially given missed/changing business requirements |
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Software is updated regularly by the software provider on a regular basis |
Maintenance was very costly as most of the programmers were retained |
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Integrated systems especially ERP software like SAP ensure data is not updated real-time and the various systems are well integrated |
Various systems which were built were fragmented and stored data repetitively thus resulting in out-of-sync data |
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems provide single source of data with designed integration between different functional modules to take advantage of an enterprise’s stored information.
What is Customization?
For these systems, a common set of source code was needed for these packages so that changes in technology could be rapidly introduced via upgrades to the programs. To facilitate these systems, a new way of customizing systems was needed. This new way was known as table-driven customization or configuration. Table-driven customization allows for rapid changes in business requirement with a common set of source code or programs. This is what makes the ERP systems so flexible.