Description

Course Overview:

This course will introduce you to enterprise systems and show how organizations use enterprise systems to run their operations more efficiently and effectively. You will learn about the critical success factors and implementation strategies that lead to enterprise system success, and about the informational, knowledge, and decision-making opportunities afforded by enterprise systems. The course will examine typical Enterprise Systems modules: materials management (MM), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), financials, projects and human resource management (HRM). Enterprise systems use a single database to integrate business transactions along and between processes, leading to benefits such as efficient and error-free workflows plus accounting, management reporting and improved decision-making. The course will incorporate a laboratory component using SAP software.

Course Objectives:

• practical skills in operation of the SAP ERP-system modules; Material Management, Sales and Distribution, Production Planning and Financial Accounting
• theoretical knowledge of; business processes, business process modeling and the history and evolution of ERP systems
• an understanding of how ERP- systems support and automate business processes.