BCP in ERP Business Processes
BCP is a cross-functional team possessing bringing champions of business knowledge from different functions and therefore should ideally be utilized at higher rates, that helps core business process continually improvise and operate at higher rate of efficiencies, so that, without underlying the major reasons of BCP setup, it should also be looked at how it can bring efficiency in every level within each department.
To explain in very simple example, if a facsimile message containing a purchase order not being able to sent at right time to a vendor/supplier could significantly result in loss or missed revenue opportunity and re-work for both purchaser and vendor. Not just that, imagine the cycle of impacts it brings to entire organization process - shipment trucks, overstocked warehouses etc.,
This multi-part series article brings in a view of how you can relate BCP to everyday business processes efficiencies and at what levels BCP can be invoked with a view to meet the demand and supply chain thereby gearing to a scalable operation.
In the next series, we will cover the levels of BCP definition and how additional efficiency can be brought to each business processes.
