SAP@ STFX

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• SAP_at_ STFX
• 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
• 8 full time IS faculty

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SAP University Alliance Experience 1999

• U of South Dakota common sense advice
• Florida International U.
• IS program similar to ours
• academic issues

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The Process A1

• Gather info on ERP SAP via the Internet.
• Extensive bookmarks turned into
• ERP References HP
• SAP References HP

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What are other universities doing with SAP/ERP?

• Created SAP University Links HP
• Very useful

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Invitation

• Please send the URLS to your SAP pages
• RMACKINN_at_STFX.CA
• for
• http//juliet.stfx.ca/infosys/sap_univ.htm

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Why stop here?

• SAP Intro, Tutorial HP
• SAP Jobs HP
• SAP Books HP

• SAP PPT Slides
• ABAP References
• CRM References

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The Process B

• Convince the Dean
• Convince Business Administration
• BSAD Chair appointed
• co conspirator Jerry Trites
• Convince the President
• Interesting meeting - TSG.

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Timelines

• Discussions with Keith Wright (MMD) April 1999
• Support from IS BSAD Depts. May 1999
• University Alliance Agreement
• Need an academic plan May 1999
• IS Plan Ron MacKinnon May 1999
• BSAD Plan Jerry Trites May 1999
• SAP Legal contracts - problems August 1999
• Dell server August 1999
• SAP installed September 1999
• First ERP/SAP course September 1999

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Costs

• Dell server 33 K CDN
• SAP annual contract 7.4 K CDN
• Training travel expenses ?

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Server Configuration

• Dell PowerEdge 4300
• Dual Pentium III 450 MHZ cpus
• 1 GB DIMM memory
• 6 - 18 GB LVD SCSI 7.2K rpm
• 109 GB total
• 35/70 GB DLT7000 Tape Backup
• Windows NT 4.0

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Bachelor of Information System (BIS) Degree

• Year 3
• Intro to IS
• IS Applications
• COBOL
• IS Elective
• IS Elective

• Year 4
• Systems Analysis
• Project Management
• Data Communications
• IS Elective
• Computer Organ
• Operating Systems Using C

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BIS Electives

• Operations Research
• Client/Server Intranet
• Systems Design
• Multimedia
• Geographic Information Systems
• Research Methods

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ERP/SAP Role in IS Degree

• 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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Textbooks

• INFO 418
• 1.Prince, Dennis L., Getting Started with SAP
  R/3, Prima Tech, ISBN 0-7615-1904-1
• 2.Bruyn Lyfareff., Intro to ABAP/4 Programming
  for SAP. Revised Expanded Edition, Prima Tech,
  ISBN 0-7615-1392-2.
• BSAD 417
• Bancroft, Seip, Sprengel Manning, Implementing
  SAP R/3, Prentice Hall, ISBN 013889213X
• Three Harvard Cases, Available from Bookstore

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SAP Role in Bus Admin Degree417 ERP -
Implementation Management

• Intro Accounting
• Foundations of Mgmt
• Managerial Acct
• Managing in Org
• Operations Mgmt
• Electronic Commerce

• Mgmt of Info Tech
• Cost Accounting
• Human Resource Mgmt
• Managerial Behavior
• Tech Change in Org
• Business Policy

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The Results

• SAP installed in early September 1999
• First INFO ERP/SAP course fall 1999 35 students
• Second ERP course spring 2000 37 students
• First BSAD ERP/SAP course spring 2000 28
  students
• Subtotal 100 students
• All third year IS students intro to ERP
  130 students
• Total of students with ERP instruction
  230 students
• 9 IS/BSAD faculty with SAP training

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The Future

• ERP concentration in BIS degree fall 2000
• ERP/SAP integrated in INFO courses
• ERP/SAP integrated into BSAD courses
• Achieving the goal of
• the integration of technology throughout the
  curriculum of the School of Business IS

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Conclusion

• SAP can be
• acquired installed with a minimum of expense,
• can be implemented in a fairly short period of
  time.
• Where there is a will there is a way.
• Need a champion (s).
• Audentes fortuna juvat
• (Fortune favors the daring)
• Be masters of your own destiny
• The future is yours. Go for it!

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Questions?

• RMACKINN_at_STFX.CA