3.5 Types of Business Information Systems

With information systems, many steps in business processes are automated.

One of the examples is the process of order fulfillment (see Figure 3.2)

3.5 Types of Business Information Systems

Figure3.2 The Order Fulfillment Process

3.5 Types of Business Information Systems

	In the example above, the business process is composed of a set of tasks divided into three sub processes: Sales, Accounting and Manufacturing/Production.
	A set of ISs can be integrated to support such tasks to support the overall order fulfillment process.