ERP Systems - Detailed Syllabus

ERP Systems is one of the elective subjects for semester 5 of bscit and following is the detailed syllabus for the subject :

1) Introduction To ERP
Evolution of ERP, What is ERP? Reasons for the growth of ERP, Secnario and Justification of ERP in India, Evaluation Of ERP, Various Modules
Of ERP, Advantage of ERP.

2) An overview of Enterprise, Integrated Management Information, Business Modelling, ERP for Small Business, ERP for make to order companies, Business Process Mapping for ERP Module Design, Hardware Enviornment and its Selection for ERP Implementation.

3) ERP and Related Technologies, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Management Information System (MIS), Executive Information System (EIS), Decision support System (DSS), Supply Chain Management (SCM)

4) ERP Modules, Introduction, Finance, Plant Maintainance, Quality Management, Materials Management

5) ERP Market, Introduction, SAP AG, Baan Company, Oracle Corporation, People Soft, JD Edwards World Solutions Company, System Software Associates, Inc. (SSA)
QAD, A Comparative Assessment and Selection of ERP Packages and Modules.

6) ERP implementation lifecycle, issues in implementing ERP packages, pre-evaluation screening, package evaluation, project planning phase, gap analysis, reengineering,
configuration, implementation, team traning, testing, going live, end-user training, post implementation (Maintainance mode).

7) Vendors, Consultants and users, In-House Implementation - pors and cons, vendors, consultants, end user.

8) Future Directions in ERP, New markets, new channels, faster implementation methodologies, business modules and BAPIs, convergence on windows NT, Application platform,
new business segments, more features, web enabling, market snapshot.