Question

Internal business partnerships between supply and other functional areas such as marketing/sales, finance/accounting, and engineering are: a. desirable because of the interdependencies between and among functions. b. easily developed because all functional areas share goals and metrics. c. difficult to develop because supply has little impact on organizational goals. d. unimportant because one area has no impact on the others.

Answer 1

Answer:

a. desirable because of the interdependencies between and among functions.

Explanation:

Workflow management systems can be defined as a strategic software application or program designed to avail companies the infrastructure to setup, define, create and manage the performance or execution of series of sequential tasks, as well as respond to workflow participants.

Some of the international bodies that establish standards used in workflow management are;

1. World Wide Web Consortium.

2. Workflow Management Coalition.

3. Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

Workflow management systems enhances the automation and management of various business processes, as well as create partnership between different units through the business process.

Hence, internal business partnerships between supply and other functional areas such as marketing/sales, finance/accounting, and engineering are desirable because of the interdependencies between and among functions.