ERP Course Potential Classes
Based on Use of
Enterprise Resource Planning
Systems: Systems, Life Cycle, Electronic Commerce and Risk
(Assumes
roughly 1.25 hours per class. In
addition, course should include sufficient hands on to acquaint the student
with at least one package. Course
syllabus does not include specific time for hands-on, which would be designed
to meet specific needs of the particular instructor. This syllabus lays out up to 20 classes that could be used as
part of a course on ERP systems.
Additional classes (e.g., 10) could be used to access hands-on
issues. Alternatively, a number of
classes could be pruned to provide a shorter course.)
Introduction
Class
1 Introduction
Introductions
Lecture:
Why A Course in ERP? (Chapter 1)
Class
2 Background
Lecture: Background (Chapter
2)
Class
3 Industry
Case: SAP America
Read ERP Industry (Chapter
3)
Class
4 Expectations
Case: Geneva Steel (Appendix 3-1)
Class
5 ERP Inputs and Outputs
Lecture: ERP Inputs and
Outputs (Chapters 4 and 5). (Good place
to start hands on)
Class
6 Information Flows Under ERP
Case: Information Flows in Manufacturing
Under SAP R/3
(Good place to continue hands-on)
Class
7 Reengineering (Clean Slate vs.
Technology Enabled)
Lecture Chapter 6
Can be a good place to review
fundamentals of reengineering (e.g., obliteration vs. best practices)
Class
8 Deciding to Go ERP
Case: Dow Corning A
Read/Lecture (Chapter 7)
Class
9a,b Choosing an ERP System (1/2)
Case: Timberjack or Harley
Davidson or both on different days
Class
10 Choosing an ERP System (2/2)
Cases: Appendix 8-1 and
8-2
Read/Lecture: Chapter 8
Class
11 Designing ERP Systems
Case: Vandelay
Read/Lecture: Chapter 10
Class
12a,b Implementing ERP Systems
Case: Quantum or Tektronix
or both on different days
Read/Lecture: Chapter 11
Class
12c If time add an additional class
and do World Wide Implementations
Case: Dow Corning B
Read/Lecture Chapter
13 Training
Class
13 After Going Live
Read/Lecture: Chapter 12
Case: Appendix 12-1
Class
14 ERP and Risk
Read/Lecture Chapter 15
Class
15 ERP and Risk
Case: Siemens I
Class
16 ERP Project Teams
Case: Siemens II
(Surviving R/3)
Class
17 ERP and E-Commerce
Read/Lecture Chapter 14
Case: Cisco Systems,
Inc. or Case: Appendix 14-1 or both on different days