From Teaching Large-Scale ERP Systems to Additionally Teaching Medium-Sized Systems

Today, standardised enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are used in a majority of enterprises. There are many ERP systems with different technologies and philosophies available on the market. Therefore, the need for providing ERP knowledge by teaching the concepts of ERP systems in study courses and above all the possibilities of using these systems themselves in courses are frequently discussed in literature. Thus, we suggest a 2-course combination for teaching ERP systems at German universities where single courses dominate with mainly one large ERP system. Within this paper we present our approach for setting up the courses, the description of the courses as well as the student evaluation of this combination