Implementing SAP Courses into the International Business Degree Programme

This study was commissioned by HAMK University of Applied Science, International Business in Valkeakoski Union. There is a need to develop the current situation of implementing ERP/ SAP System into the curriculum. The current curriculum of International Business Programme has already included the “Introduction of ERP systems”; “Human Resource Management and ERP”, thus some other practices of operating SAP R/3 System in regard to other business courses. However, it doesn’t really seem to be a clearly defined system or study module since already two years. Since the author of the present thesis has experience studying for a double degree in Controlling and Information Management Programme in Hochschule Ludwigshafen in Germany which has successfully run SAP R/3 within their curriculum for many years, it would be a great contribution to design a study module for International Business Programme of her home university HAMK University of Applied Science. The aim of the paper is to study how to implement the SAP courses into HAMK University of Applied Science of Business curriculum, what topics, elements, modules and intersystem business processes should be used to support the theory. In order to do this, there are some objectives need to take into consider. To find out the importance of SAP, the demand, experiences, options of SAP for the graduates; thus to catch the demand of the global market. To get information from different aspects, the author would have three interviews and two email interviews because of distance. The interview group is divided into three parts. The participants are respectively professor from University in Germany, lecturers from HAMK in Finland and students from HAMK who did or is doing a double degree in Germany. The purpose is to analyse the curriculum of IB programme of HAMK, and design a module based on the purpose of the studies; sum up with recommendations of incorporating