Week 1-2: Introduction and Evolution of ERP Systems

Content Covered:

  1. Introduction to ERP
  2. What is ERP?
    1. What is Enterprise?
    2. What is Resource?
    3. What is planning and what are planning strategies?
  3. Flow of information
    1. Horizontal Communication
    2. Vertical Communication
  4. Levels of Managers
    1. Low-level management
    2. Middle-level management
    3. Top-level management
  5. Goals and scopes of an enterprise
  6. Introduction to legacy systems
  7. Background of Enterprise Resource Planing Systems
  8. Modules of Enterprise Resource Planing Systems
  9. Who needs to understand Enterprise Resource Planing Systems?
  10. Before and After Enterprise Resource Planing Systems
  11. Integration of Enterprise Resource Planing Systems
  12. Advantages and disadvantages of Enterprise Resource Planing Systems
  13. Implementation issues of Enterprise Resource Planing Systems
  14. Evolution of Enterprise Resource Planing Systems
  15. ERP Tiers
  16. What is SAP?