Advanced Computer Package

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to understand and describe the power of integration as demonstrated by an ERP, understand the requirements definition process required by an ERP implementation, understand and describe basic implementation issues unique to ERP systems, understand the use of ERP technology in the decision making process for software implementation.

Topics

The student who completes this course should know: business processes common to most businesses–order processing, inventory management, procurement, etc., master data common to most businesses–customer, vendor, inventory, etc, process modeling–creating diagrams to depict the sequence of tasks completed in a business process, how a business process often spans different functional areas of the business: accounting, marketing, material management, etc, how enterprise systems, such as SAP, integrate business functional areas into one enterprise-wide information system, the issues involved in implementing an ERP system.

Prerequisite: AC113 – Introduction to Accounting I OR AC101 – Introduction to Financial Accounting, AC340 -Accounting Computer Package