Trade information system
A trade information system is a business information system specially tailored to the needs of trade . In particular, the areas of warehouse management , central settlement or drop shipments are mapped on the basis of the ARIS architecture .
Commercial H
The Handels-H is a reference model for modeling business information systems in trade. As a framework , it structures all the main processes of a trading company and offers both the process view and the data view of the functional areas within a trading company.
The H
The value-adding core processes of a trading company are listed in the H of the regulatory framework. The functional area of procurement, which is usually directed towards the supplier, can be found in the left arm of the trade H with the main processes of purchasing, disposition, incoming goods, invoice verification and accounts payable. In mirror image, the main processes of marketing, sales, goods issue, invoicing and accounts receivable are located in the right arm of the retail H as the processes to be assigned to the functional area of sales. The connecting and economically bridging element between the functional areas of procurement and sales is the warehouse process. The warehouse is therefore an essential part of the logistical process of incoming goods, storage and outgoing goods.
The roof
The management processes of a retail company based on the structuring of the retail H reference model can be found in the roof . The decision-makers of the trading company are prepared here by the processes of controlling, business intelligence and corporate planning, the data from the operational systems to serve as a basis for decision-making and planning.
The base
The business-administrative tasks and thus the support processes of the reference model are visualized as a base supporting the H and the roof . The indispensable main processes of general ledger and asset accounting, cost accounting and human resource management thus support the core and management processes of the retail H without offering any direct customer benefit themselves.
Commercial H variants
In addition to the classic retail H for wholesaling, there are also modifications for the business types stationary retail, drop shipping or central settlement. With these trade H variants , main processes are omitted or are replaced by the specifics of the respective type of business.
Further development and use of the trade H
The use of this reference model is continuously being developed further within the research at Jörg Becker's chair and within the practice in the management consultancy Prof. Becker GmbH.
IT support for modeling trade information systems
In addition to universally applicable modeling tools such as Microsoft Visio, ARIS or Signavio, the icebricks process modeling tool designed for the retail sector should also be mentioned. The web-based modeling tool is part of the icebricks method, which among other things uses the retail H as a reference model. For the conceptual modeling of reporting and metadata management within a trading company and thus going beyond pure ER models , the H2 toolset developed by Jörg Becker at the chair can be used. This supports retail companies in designing their management information systems.
literature
- Becker, Jörg; Schütte, Reinhard: Handelsinformationssysteme , 2nd ed., Redline Wirtschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 2004. ISBN 3-478-25590-2