Enterprise Systems

Catalog description

Focuses on how an IT system like ERP supports and integrates core business processes within an organization and across its supply chains. Format includes a combination of lectures and in-class exercises using SAP's ERP system. Discusses key ERP concepts and issues from functional, technical and implementation viewpoints. Also includes hands-on working experience (through simulation) in manufacturing and distribution using SAP in the following areas: Sales Order Process, Purchasing, MRP, Production Ordering, Accounting and Forecasting. Investigates the reasons why many ERP installations are considered “failures” and ways to circumvent these unfortunate outcomes, competing ERP platforms, and business intelligence tools available within SAP. To demonstrate an understanding of course-related ERP content, students experience a “real world” market simulation requiring knowledge derived from this course and previous courses. Data from this simulator are used for data modeling and analytics.