An innovative postgraduate program on enterprise resource planning : Master Of Business (ERP) : incorporating SAP R/3 system and related products at University of Western Sydney, Australia

This paper outlines the details of an innovative postgraduate program, Master of Business (ERP), incorporating SAP R/3 System and related products that was introduced at the University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 1999. The program aims to develop integrative enterprise skills in a holistic business process management perspective, and provide ability to reengineer processes and implement an ERP system, in particular SAP R/3 system. The program has undergone continuous review to incorporate advanced dimensional products of SAP in order to improve its structure and the contents. As a result, this program has become one of the very popular ERP related postgraduate courses in Australia. This program explains the ERP concepts and contexts with the use of several SAP R/3 system application modules. It introduces students to modules such as Materials Management (MM), Quality Management (QM), Production Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), Financial (FI) and Controlling (CO), and Human Resources (HR). Students are also given an opportunity to work on other areas of SAP R/3 system such as Basis Technology, ABAP Workbench, Business Workflow as well as the advanced dimensional products such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Information Warehouse (BW), Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM), Customer Relations Management (CRM), and Supplier Relations Management (SRM)