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Business process Reengineering

Caterpillar Inc located in Peoria , Illinois , US , the world 's largest maker of construction and mining equipment , diesel and natural gas engines , and industrial gas , turbines . Caterpillar reveals the business outcomes that are directly related with the deployment of business process simplification and improvement . Business process reengineering principles are used right from 1900s in the area of management of information systems . Some of the companies also failed due to some implementation pitfalls in the business process reengineering Caterpillar first introduced BPR into its Mossville engine center unit

and it saved about US 10 and US 20 million . So the caterpillar Inc feels that the successes of process improvements are directly tied with the business process simplification and improvement . It specifies systematic methodologies for analysis , design and improvement . All these methodologies provide techniques , job roles for effectively implementing the redesigned business process . Information technology plays a major role by supporting data flow , data transformation , information flow and communications between each stages of BPS /I . it provides the environment for its people to think of creative solutions . So the caterpillar uses the BPS /I approach rather than the requirement analysis of IT systems

BPS /I approach is very useful for improving the business process but it lacks in areas like long term success , organization structure establishment and systematic procedure for solving the problems . The people involved in the bps should be very helpful in implementing the changes in the organization . The output and input to each stage should be...

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