SAP information system applied in the purchasing area of the company Cementos Catatumbo AC of the Maracaibo Municipality / peg. 28-51

Abstract

An information system is a set of data that interact with
each other to manage, collect, retrieve, process, store
and distribute important and relevant information for the
essential and particular processes of each company. The
purpose of this article is to analyze the SAP information
system in the purchasing area of the company Cementos
Catatumbo C.A. located in Maracaibo, Zulia State,
Venezuela. The research was descriptive and field, with
non-experimental and transectional design, representing
a case study, whose reporting units were workers from
the company's purchasing department. The population
census is made up of 5 individuals working in the unit. A
dichotomous questionnaire consisting of 12 closed-ended
question items was selected and validated by an expert in
the area and a specialist in research methodology;
reliability was not calculated since the population
consisted of less than ten subjects. In terms of the
findings, it was observed that, in the shopping area of
Cements Catatumbo, C. A., you may not make orders that
exceed the number of digits allowed by the SAP system,
as do their transactions in a foreign currency would be a
figure very high product high inflation, the country
currently, by which the order should be split into several
parts, so that the system can perform the operation. It is
concluded that a change of SAP Software packages and
supports is required in the company that contain an
update of its system and a correct adaptability in terms of
the monetary reconversion that is established in
Venezuela every certain period.