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Course Outline - Enterprise Resource Planning
Fund.Analy BM, Fund.Analy BM

Standardized Outline for Courses



Part A: Basic Details

Name of Course

Enterprise Resource Planning

Course Instructor(s)

(please provide email id)

Atanu Ghosh

atanu.ghosh@bluebeaks.in



Academic Associate(s)

(please provide email id)

Ms. Sarah Thomas

sarah@xlri.ac.in



Area

Information System (IS)

Program

Business Management (BM) and Human Resource Management (HRM)

Term

V

Type of Course (Core/Elective/Workshop)

Elective

Number of Credits

3.0

Number of Classroom Contact Hours

30

Course Pre-requisites (if any, including cut-off grades in specific core courses)

None

Course Textbook


Text Book: ERP Demystified; Alexis Leon

Supplementary Reading: SAMS Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours; Michael Missbach and George Anderson


Course Handout to be Provided

(Yes/No)

Yes

No. of Sessions to be taken by Guest Faculty

Nil

Name of Guest Faculty (if identified)

Not Applicable


Part B: About the Course

Course Description

This is an introductory course on ERP. The course covers the evolution of ERP, the business challenges ERP solves and those they cannot solve and the future of ERP.
The course facilitates mapping base level business process like procure to pay, plan to produce, order to cash and budget to report in a leading ERP system like SAP. The business process improvements enabled by an ERP system becomes evident through this process.
The course includes delivery models, project management techniques used in an ERP implementation. Stakeholder and change management are discussed in the course.
The course also covers costing and pricing of ERP projects and the process of buying and selling ERP solutions.
Case studies are discussed to demonstrate how ERP solutions can solve business challenges of organizations, improve business processes

Course Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the business challenges that ERP solves and the benefits (value) that they bring to organizations

  2. Become aware of the different types of ERPs, their evolution and their pros and cons

  3. Become aware of the key technical components that constitute a typical enterprise grade ERP like SAP

  4. Design a business process improvement and map the basic process on a leading ERP like SAP

  5. Learn how to cost and price an ERP project and estimate the return on investment of an ERP project

  6. Learn how to solution and sell an ERP project

  7. Learn how to buy an ERP product and service and how to draw a contract for ERP implementation

  8. Learn the project management method of implementing an ERP and how to manage stakeholders and change

Who is the course suitable for? (for electives only)

The course is suitable to students


  1. Aspiring to join strategic and operations consulting firms where they might be required to work on business process improvement initiatives of clients

  2. Specializing in operations, supply chain and sales and distribution so that they have an exposure to the application and use of ERP in these domains

  3. Specializing in finance to get an exposure on how integration of various operational domains like sales and supply chain and financial accounting is done through ERP and how managerial accounting (costing or controlling) principles like activity based costing are implemented in leading ERPs like SAP

  4. Specializing in marketing and sales to understand how IT products like ERP are solutioned and sold to clients

  5. Specializing in HR to understand the stakeholder and change management challenges in implementation of ERP in an organization

  6. Specializing in IT and Systems to learn how ERP solutions can add value to clients


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