Build your RPD around business processes

Hi,
I have read many blogs and books around RPD and best practices. Many recommend building out the RPD around business processes. Refering to 11G. Currently my RPD development is still under development, not released to TEST or Production. My subject areas are layed out by Business Areas - Fact Table
EG:
- Supply Chain - Purchase Orders
- Supply Chain - Purchase receipts
- Supply Chain - Inventory
- Work Order - Parts List
- Work Order - Routing
- Work Order - WO Master
- manufacturing - Messages
etc...
Now I am debating if I should rebuild it by Business processes as now I want to do some multiple subject area reporting and having join issues (Casting Nulls) Just wondering on how others are building theirs, and issues your having or am I the only one building around tables instead of Process. We did not buy the OBIEE apps due to certain reasons.
Love to hear your setup's and thoughts,
Thanks!
Jonathan

Hi Jonathan,
I think, it is best to build the Subject Areas around business processes than facts. Any reporting tool, is supposed to answer analytical questions for set of business questions which might have to be served from different facts.
A user might want to see his sales figures are for this month and look at the inventory at the same time, to check the availability. (Sorry if this was a bad example ;) ), which would need to join across subject areas if they are fact based.
Hope, you got my point and this helps.
Thank you,
Dhar

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I am a graduate student of MIS at Northern Illinois University. I took Dr. Yipeng Liu’s course of Advanced Topic of Information Systems using your textbook - Integrated Business Process With ERP Systems. Your textbook is great. I have a question to discuss with you.
On page 62 of your textbook, I don’t think the accounting process of purchasing supplies is correct. In the example, “GBI purchases office supplies for $500 with a check. Office supplies are expensed; that is, they are defined as money spent rather than treated as an asset upon purchase, even if some of the supplies remain unused. In this case, the relevant accounts are bank and supplies expense.”
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