Information and Knowledge Management using ArcGIS ModelBuilder

Bartosz Wachnik
Table 1: Criteria of ERP selection and implementation partner selection
Criteria of ERP systems selection Criteria of implementation partner selection
1. Ensuring required specialized functionalities enabling
servicing of business process that will be subjected to
validation, e.g.
• Possibility of completing pick-up process and
warehouse release process using the First Expire
First Out method.
• Warehouse management system has to ensure
the so-called “traceability”: the possibility to fully
monitor the history of raw materials, materials,
wares and products from the moment of entry to
the warehouse, through production cycle to
product to product release including information
on who subsequently received the product. This
functionality is crucial when it is necessary to
identify raw materials that are used as ingredients
of a drug that has to be withdrawn from the
market. In this case the traceability functionality
enables us to associate a required batch of
contaminated drugs with raw materials batches
that have been used in the drugs production.
• Managing the batch of product status in a quality
control context. A System on the basis of defined
statuses, should manage the raw materials’ and
half-finished products’ flow within warehouse
structure.
• Managing access right and possibility to monitor
modifications of specific records in ERP system
database.
2. Architecture enabling ERP system integration with
other IT systems of industrial automation e.g.
scales. This type of interface responsible for
integration should be validable if required.
3. The possibility of validating an ERP system within
a defined range.
4. The possibility of further ERP system
developments in accordance with validation
allowing low cost system maintenance, the socalled
TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
User Requirments
Specification URS
Functional
Specification FS
Design
Specification DS
Computer system design
1. Competence of implementation partner in terms of
implemented functionalities complying with validation
requirements.
2. An implementation partner must have access to a
group of consultants who have knowledge and
documented experience in completing similar ERP
implementation projects.
3. Organisational structure of project should ensure
knowledge transfer concerning an ERP system’s
functionality from an implementation enterprise to
key system users.
4. A partner should complete an implementation project
in accordance with ERP system implementation
methodics concerning validation conditioning both
prospective and retrospective. Methodics should
includes e.g.
• Dividing the whole implementation process into
task that should be precisely defined.
• Full documentation that has to be completed
during project’s implementation, e.g. tests script
used in acceptance testing.
• Verification procedures concerning user
requirements specification completion.
• Adjusting procedures and approval procedures
for functional specification and user
requirement specification.
• Procedures for creating and testing parameters
setting.
• Procedures for creating and reviewing source
code in case of programming.
• Procedures for testing software and its
documentary evidence.
• Reporting procedures concerning error and
discordance elimination in created software.
• Software version control procedures.
• Procedures concerning enhancing functional
changes during project implementation.
Process
Qualification PQ
Operational
Qualification OQ
Installation
Qualification IQ
Figure 2: Life cycle of the “V” computer system in reference to its validation according to the GAMP
manual (Hojdyś K. 2004)
The system under-construction and then operation moves across the “V” line starting from the top left
corner to the top right corner of the line. We need to underline to underline that this is a standard IT
system life cycle and it has to be adapted to the ERP class IT system requirements. Important general
rules (Hojdyś K. 2004) of practical “V” model usage are:
Documents in the left and right corners of the letter “V” have to be mutually coherent.
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