Name of Course
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Enterprise Resource Planning
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Course Instructor(s)
(please provide email id)
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Atanu Ghosh
atanu.ghosh@bluebeaks.in
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Academic Associate(s)
(please provide email id)
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Ms. Sarah Thomas
sarah@xlri.ac.in
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Area
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Information System (IS)
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Program
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Business Management (BM) and Human Resource Management (HRM)
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Term
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V
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Type of Course (Core/Elective/Workshop)
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Elective
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Number of Credits
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3.0
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Number of Classroom Contact Hours
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30
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Course Pre-requisites (if any, including cut-off grades in specific core courses)
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None
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Course Textbook
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Text Book: ERP Demystified; Alexis Leon
Supplementary Reading: SAMS Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours; Michael Missbach and George Anderson
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Course Handout to be Provided
(Yes/No)
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Yes
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No. of Sessions to be taken by Guest Faculty
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Nil
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Name of Guest Faculty (if identified)
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Not Applicable
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Course Description
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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
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Course Learning Objectives
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Understand the business challenges that ERP solves and the benefits (value) that they bring to organizations
Become aware of the different types of ERPs, their evolution and their pros and cons
Become aware of the key technical components that constitute a typical enterprise grade ERP like SAP
Design a business process improvement and map the basic process on a leading ERP like SAP
Learn how to cost and price an ERP project and estimate the return on investment of an ERP project
Learn how to solution and sell an ERP project
Learn how to buy an ERP product and service and how to draw a contract for ERP implementation
Learn the project management method of implementing an ERP and how to manage stakeholders and change
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Who is the course suitable for? (for electives only)
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The course is suitable to students
Aspiring to join strategic and operations consulting firms where they might be required to work on business process improvement initiatives of clients
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
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
Specializing in marketing and sales to understand how IT products like ERP are solutioned and sold to clients
Specializing in HR to understand the stakeholder and change management challenges in implementation of ERP in an organization
Specializing in IT and Systems to learn how ERP solutions can add value to clients
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