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SAP@ STFX
• Ron MacKinnon
• Chair, IS Department
• Gerald Schwartz School of Business & IS
• St. Francis Xavier University
• Nova Scotia, Canada
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St. Francis Xavier University
• Private university
• 3,600 students
• 900 students in School of Business & IS
• IS is the fastest growing department in the university
• 8 full time IS faculty
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SAP University Alliance Experience 1999
• U of South Dakota – common sense advice
• Florida International U.– IS program similar to ours
– academic issues
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The Process A1
• Gather info on ERP & SAP via the Internet.
• Extensive bookmarks turned into:
– ERP References HP
– SAP References HP
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What are other universities doing with SAP/ERP?
• Created SAP University Links HP– Very useful
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Invitation
• Please send the URLS to your SAP pages
• for
• http://juliet.stfx.ca/~infosys/sap_univ.htm
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Why stop here?
• SAP Intro, Tutorial HP
• SAP Jobs HP
• SAP Books HP
• SAP PPT Slides
• ABAP References
• CRM References
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SAP Index URL
• juliet.stfx.ca/~infosys/sapindex.htm
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The Process B
• Convince the Dean
• Convince Business Administration– BSAD Chair appointed
– co conspirator Jerry Trites
• Convince the President– Interesting meeting - TSG.
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Timelines• Discussions with Keith Wright (MMD) April 1999
• Support from IS & BSAD Depts. May 1999
• University Alliance Agreement
• Need an academic plan May 1999
– IS Plan Ron MacKinnon May 1999
– BSAD Plan Jerry Trites May 1999
• SAP Legal contracts - problems August 1999
• Dell server August 1999
• SAP installed September 1999
• First ERP/SAP course September 1999
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Costs
• Dell server $ 33 K CDN
• SAP annual contract $7.4 K CDN
• Training travel expenses ?
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Server Configuration• Dell PowerEdge 4300
• Dual Pentium III 450 MHZ cpus
• 1 GB DIMM memory
• 6 - 18 GB LVD SCSI 7.2K rpm – 109 GB total
• 35/70 GB DLT7000 Tape Backup
• Windows NT 4.0
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Bachelor of Information System (BIS) Degree
• Year 3• Intro to IS• IS Applications• COBOL• IS Elective• IS Elective
• Year 4• Systems Analysis• Project Management• Data Communications• IS Elective• Computer Organ• Operating Systems Using C
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BIS Electives
• Operations Research
• Client/Server & Intranet
• Systems Design
• Multimedia
• Geographic Information Systems
• Research Methods
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ERP/SAP Role in IS Degree• 345 Introduction to ERP• 346 ABAP• 347 Implementation, Config & Use of an ERP• 418 Topics in IS (ERP)• Integrated into:• 316 IS Applications (in year 2)• 419 Client/Server & Intranets• 475 Database Management Systems• 416 Project Mgmt
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Textbooks• INFO 418
• 1.Prince, Dennis L., Getting Started with SAP R/3, Prima Tech, ISBN 0-7615-1904-1
• 2.Bruyn & Lyfareff., Intro to ABAP/4 Programming for SAP. Revised & Expanded Edition, Prima Tech, ISBN 0-7615-1392-2.
• BSAD 417
• Bancroft, Seip, Sprengel; Manning, Implementing SAP R/3, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 013889213X
• Three Harvard Cases, Available from Bookstore
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SAP Role in Bus Admin Degree417 ERP - Implementation Management
• Intro Accounting• Foundations of Mgmt• Managerial Acct• Managing in Org• Operations Mgmt• Electronic Commerce
• Mgmt of Info Tech• Cost Accounting• Human Resource Mgmt• Managerial Behavior• Tech & Change in Org• Business Policy
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The Results• SAP installed in early September 1999
• First INFO ERP/SAP course fall 1999 35 students
• Second ERP course spring 2000 37 students
• First BSAD ERP/SAP course spring 2000 28 students
– Subtotal 100 students
• All third year IS students intro to ERP 130 students
• Total # of students with ERP instruction 230 students
• 9 IS/BSAD faculty with SAP training
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The Future• ERP concentration in BIS degree fall 2000
• ERP/SAP integrated in INFO courses
• ERP/SAP integrated into BSAD courses
• Achieving the goal of– the integration of technology throughout the
curriculum of the School of Business & IS
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Conclusion• SAP can be: • acquired & installed with a minimum of expense,• can be implemented in a fairly short period of time.• Where there is a will there is a way.
– Need a champion (s).
• Audentes fortuna juvat – (Fortune favors the daring)
• Be masters of your own destiny• The future is yours. Go for it!
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Sap Index
juliet.stfx.ca/~infosys/sapindex.htm
PPT Slides
www.stfx.ca/people/infosys/sap/ppt/