This course is open for master students in logistics or applied informatics only. The maximum number of participants is 25.
3 hours of lectures and guided exercises per week. Some weeks will be planned for more intensive hands-on training.
Presence in 80 % of the lectures is required. All exercises are mandatory.
After successfully completing this class, students should:
- Have practical skills in operation of the SAP ERP-system modules; Material Management, Sales and Distribution, Production Planning and Financial Accounting
- Have theoretical knowledge of; business processes, business process modeling and the history and evolution of ERP systems
- Have an understanding of how ERP- systems support and automate business processes
The development of ERP-systems over the last decades has been one of the key advancements in organizations' use of information technology. An ERP-system supports and automates business processes across functional areas and integrates data across the organization. ERP-systems are designed to connect the entire organization, including suppliers and customers, in a web-enabled computing environment that provides information to all participants as needed. This course describes the managerial and technical challenges in implementing ERP-systems and managing an organization with such an interdependent, connected system. From a technological view, students will use a commercially available ERP-system (SAP) to build an understanding of the functional capabilities of such systems. From a managerial view, students will use business cases to develop an understanding of the process of implementing and using enterprise systems effectively in organizations.
Ellen F. Monk, Bret J. Wagner. 2008. Concepts in Enterprise Resource Planning. 3rd ed. Boston: Course Technology.
