ERP in the Curriculum of Business Schools

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• ERP in the Curriculum of Business Schools
• Ron MacKinnon
• Chair, IS Department
• Gerald Schwartz School of Business IS
• St. Francis Xavier University
• Nova Scotia, Canada

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St. Francis Xavier University

• Private university
• 3,600 students
• 900 students in School of Business IS
• IS is the fastest growing department in the
  university
• 48 of students in school are IS

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What is ERP?

• Enterprise software is integrated software that
  facilitates the flow of information among all the
  processes of an organizations supply chain.
• A supply chain describes the chronological and
  logical relationships of business transactions
  from original supply to final consumption.
• A value chain encompasses those activities in the
  supply chain that add value to a product or
  service of an organization.
• A value chain views all the business events from
  the receipt of a customer order to the delivery
  of that order. For example, value is added when
  the production process takes raw materials and
  transforms them into a finished product, when the
  product is sold to the customer. A company is
  profitable if the price consumers are willing to
  pay for a product exceeds the costs of creating
  value.
• Central Michigan University ERP Tutorial

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What is ERP?

• See URLS on ERP/IBSCA
• http//juliet.stfx.ca/rmackinn/erpibsca.htm
• for additional URLs of definitions

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Who are the ERP Companies?

• SAP 29 (97) 36(98)
• Oracle 10 (97) 13(98)
• J. D. Edwards 7 (97) 7 (98)
• PeopleSoft 6 (97) 7 (98)
• Baan 5 (97) 6 (98)

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What is SAP?

• The company name, SAP, is an acronym for Systems,
  Applications and Products in Data Processing (in
  German Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung).
  The company was founded in 1972 by four former
  IBM employees. The company's headquarters are in
  Walldorf in Germany.
• SAP R/3 is a vast suite of software that helps
  business managers implement ERP (Enterprise
  Resource Planning) which is a business management
  system that integrates all facets of the
  business, including planning, manufacturing,
  sales, and marketing.
• from SAP at Edith Cowan University

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SAP R3 Components
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SAP R/3 Customer Installations by Industry
SAP HIGH TECH ELECTRONICS 11.3
Others 11.5
SAP BANKING 2.0
SAP MEDIA 2.3
SAP HEALTHCARE 2.3
Metal, Paper Wood Products 2.8
Services 3.1
SAP OIL GAS 3.2
SAP CONSUMER PRODUCTS 10.3
SAP TELECOM-MUNICATIONS 3.4
SAP PHARMA - CEUTICALS 3.4
SAP PUBLIC SECTOR 3.4
SAP CHEMICALS 9.5
SAP UTILITIES 3.9
SAP RETAIL 6.3
SAP AUTOMOTIVE 4.8
Consulting Professional Services 6.0
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SAP University Alliance

• SAP can help. A world leader in the development
  of business software, SAP is making its
  market-leading, client/server-based enterprise
  software, the R/3 System, available to the
  higher education community. Through our SAP
  University Alliance Program, we are proud to
  offer you the world's most popular software of
  its kind for today's businesses. SAP also
  provides setup, follow-up consulting, and R/3
  training for faculty - all at our expense. The
  SAP R/3 System gives you the most advanced
  software capabilities used by businesses of all
  sizes and in all industries around the world.
• SAP University Alliance Home Page

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SAP Reasons for SAPUA

• Take advantage of a powerful cross-functional
  teaching tool
• Access advanced software technology
• Enhance marketability
• Attract leading educators
• Pursue research opportunities
• Broaden outreach
• Stay in touch with industry and product trends

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To Learn the Basics of ERP SAP

• Run the Enterprise Software slide show of 10
  lessons from Central Michigan Univ.
• at http//sap.mis.cmich.edu/sap.intro/index.htm
• SAP Intro Tutorials page at
• http//juliet.stfx.ca/infosys/sapintro.htm
• SAP Tutorial page U of Scranton
• http//academic.uofs.edu/faculty/gramborw/sap/sapt
  utorial.htm

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What are other Universities doing with ERP?

• Business Schools
• http//www.dartmouth.edu/tuck/bschools/index.html
• IS Depts ISWorld
• http//juliet.stfx.ca/rmackinn/infosys/isgroups.h
  tmlis
• SAP Index
• http//juliet.stfx.ca/infosys/sapindex.htm
• SAP University Links
• http//juliet.stfx.ca/infosys/sap_univ.htm
• ERP/SAP Links IBSCA
• http//juliet.stfx.ca/rmackinn/erpibsca.htm

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Areas using ERP

• MIS/IS/CIS
• Accounting
• Finance
• Production
• Operations Management
• Management

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SAP University Alliances- Global Survey Results -

• Michael Rosemann
• Queensland University of Technology
• Brisbane, Australia
• InformationSystemsManagement Research Centre

Las Vegas, 14 June 2000
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SAP University Alliances- Global Survey Results -

• By Michael Rosemann
• Queensland University of Technology
• Brisbane, Australia
• URL http//www.stfx.ca/people/infosys/sap/PPT/

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The Subjects
What courses are on offer? N 178
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The Subjects
Application
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SAP R/3-Modules Used- Frequency
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SAP Modules

• MM Materials Management
• FI/AM Financial Acct/Fixed Asset Mgmt
• SD Sales Distribution
• PP Production Planning
• CO Controlling
• HR Human Resources

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SAP R/3-Modules Used- Intensity
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Intro ERP Courses

• IS see
• http//www.stfx.ca/people/tboyle/9900page/erp100.h
  tml
• Management see
• http//139.230.151.5/users/cash/MIS4116/index.htm
• Course outlines, assignments available at
• http//juliet.stfx.ca/infosys/sap_univ.htm

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ERP in the Curriculum

• Separate courses?
• Integrated into current courses?
• Or both

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ERP/SAP Role in IS Degree at StFXU

• 345 Introduction to ERP
• 346 ABAP
• 347 Implementation, Config Use of an ERP
• 418 Topics in IS (ERP)
• Integrated into
• 316 IS Applications (in year 2)
• 419 Client/Server Intranets
• 475 Database Management Systems
• 416 Project Mgmt

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Other ERP Courses

• ABAP
• Supply Chain Management
• Business Re-Engineering
• Accounting Information Systems
• Technology Management
• Mgmt Issues in ERP Development
• Operations Management