Enterprise Resource Planning

Prof. Gopal Krishna Nayak

gopal@ximb.ac.in

Objectives
● Describe the concept of ERP and the ERP model; define key terms; explain the
transition from MRP to ERP; identify the levels of ERP maturity.
● Explain how ERP is used to integrate business processes; define and analyze a
process; create a process map and improve and/or simplify the process; apply the result
to an ERP implementation.
● Learn reasons for ERP success or failure
● Explore a little ERP literature

Pedagogy
● This course will use SAP / a open source ERP system and implement a hypothetical
company.
● The learning methodology involves learning through implementing a ERP within a
company.
● The course will be SAP focused though it will discuss other products and concepts.
● The course will use video lectures to supplement

Exercise Overview
1. Establish the Organizational Structure for Financial Accounting (FI).
2. Establish the Organizational Structure for Material Management (MM).
3. Create the General Ledger Accounts
4. Master Data for Materials Management
5. Establish some of the rules that will control the financial accounting (FI) transactions
6. Post your initial cash investment and conduct and initial test on the system by posting
the purchase of some supplies.
7. Test your systems ability to receive invoices from vendors and post payment to the
vendors account.
8. Establish some of the rules that will control the material management (MM) transactions
9. Test the integration of your Material Management and Financial Accounting systems
10. Run Material Requirements Planning to generate a purchase requisition that you will
convert to a purchase order
11. Create the organizational structure necessary to carry out the customer order
 management functions of your company.
12. Create additional master data needed for conducting the customer order management
cycle
13. Define prices for materials, specific customer prices, and discounts
14. Complete some final details necessary to prepare you for the comprehensive system
test that begins in the next unit
15. Comprehensive testing of the organizational and master data
16. Create a sales order using your customer info record for Pleasure Boats Buying Group
and then complete the order to cash business process
17. To create a sales order using a scheduling agreement for The Rushmore Group and
deliver against the scheduling agreement.
18. Create two sales orders. One sales order using the item proposal and the second sales
order that will result in a credit warning, as well as request more goods than you have for
sale
19. Look at the functionality of delivery and billing due lists
20. Create a goods return order, receive the goods, and complete the process by
transferring them back into unrestricted stock, issuing a credit and pay the customer for
the goods they returned

Evaluation
1. Completion of ERP exercises
2. FI Test
3. MM Test
4. SD Test
5. On-Line Quizzes
6. Assignments and Presentations
7. End Term Exam

Reference Books
● GARG VINOD KUMAR & VENKITAKRISHNAN N K, ERPWARE-ERP
IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK
● HAMILTON SCOTT , MAXIMIZING YOUR ERP SYSTEM: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR
MANAGERS
● LEON ALEXIS, ERP DEMYSTIFIED
● RAMAN A THOTHATHRI & DIWAN PARAG , ERP GENIE: HAVE ONE OF YOUR
OWN

Reference Websites
● Sap Help Site : help.sap.com
● Sap IDES Model Company :
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46b/helpdata/en/af/fc4f35dfe82578e10000009b38f839/fram
eset.htm
● CIO.COM
● Erpnext Website