Question

Give one example of unethical behavior involving mrp and one involving erp, and state the ethical principle violated for each example.

Answer 1

One unethical behavior involving MRP would be not considering timing and quantity. For example you are ordered to produce tables in a period of 2 months. Timing here would mean when do you order these tables so that it would reach your time span. Quantity in the example would mean how much tables should you order based on the data you have concerning about demand, on-hand, and orders. If you order too much it will be a loss in your company and if you order too little it would create chaos on the orders.

One unethical behavior involving ERP would be not informing your company that there might be something wrong in the database or that there is currently an error occurring. ERP is an important tool to manage a large company and by doing so it may interrupt production and management and can possibly mess up operations.