INFO 348

Advanced ERP using SAP

 


Course Description

This is an advanced ERP course designed to provide students with a detailed knowledge of SAP and expand the topics covered in INFO 245.  Materials are purposed to provide students their first experience with SAP ERP and an introduction to the integrated nature of business processes. Through these materials, students will get exposure to Accounting, Sales, Purchasing, Production Planning, Human Resources, and Credit & Receivables Management. The mySAP ERP system will be used to illustrate course concepts. Prerequisite: INFO 245. Three credits.

 

Course Outline

SAP Introduction   Introduces ERP, ERP vendors, SAP R/3, Client-Server architecture, SAP GUI, and Logging on with SAP.
SAP Navigation Exercises Introduces the menu paths, transaction codes, Important icons, basic interface customisation, favorites and multiple sessions.
Sales Order Process Introduces the organizational structure for SD: Sales area (Sales organization, Distribution Channels, Division), shipping points; Sales order business process:  customer order cycle, order management process—document flow, and scheduling (forward and backward).
Sales Order Process Exercise

In this exercise, you will be processing a customer order for the fictitious company. Transactions include:  Creating an enquiry,  creating sales order from an enquiry, creating a delivery for the sales order,  picking the order, post goods issue,  invoice the customer, receive payment from the customer, and Document flow.

Credit and Receivables Risk Management Introduces credit management—cross-functional activity between SD and FI, credit control area and automatic credit control.
Credit and Receivables Exercise Set updating for sales documents, define credit control area (IMG),  create risk category, maintain automatic credit control, set customer credit limit, create sales order, review customer credit limit, create sales order over the credit limit, review customer credit limit again, review and release the blocked sales order,  create delivery,  pick order & post goods issue,  create billing document, receive payment from customer,  and credit overview.
Pricing Introduces pricing, discount strategies, pricing procedure– condition type, and price calculation.
 Pricing Exercise  IMG side determine pricing procedure, customer pricing procedure, test the     basic pricing procedure, create standard order, pricing with discount, (pricing using the condition technique),  multiple discounts and minimum pricing.
Accounting  Introduces G/L accounts, Acct Groups ( B/S accts, P& L accts, and Reconciliation accounts); automatic account determination, transaction keys, Controlling, Cost elements, cost centers, Cost center standard hierarchy, cost center groups, and cost allocation.
Accounting Intro Exercise In this exercise, you will be processing accounting transactions for the fictitious company. Display G/L master records, CO– primary/ secondary cost elements, cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy; Transactions: create purchase order, G/L document, displaying account balances, checking the default tolerances; vendor invoice payment, post vendor invoice, post outgoing payment, posting & reposting, allocation via statistical key figure, create distribution cycle, allocation via assignments.
Purchasing Overview Introduces master data for purchasing– vendor master, material master– views, purchasing info record, and purchasing / procurement process.
Purchasing Cycle Exercise 

In this, you will be completing the transactions for purchase Order Cycle:

 Create a purchase requisition for two raw materials, Convert that requisition into a purchase order, Create a goods receipt, Create an invoice receipt, and Post the outgoing payment.

 
Production Planning Introduces Work centers, production master data, material types,  master data– BOM, routings,  functions of production orders, planned orders vs. production orders, production order cycle, routing selection, and material assignment.
Production Orders Exercise  Purchase additional raw materials– purchase order creation, create a goods receipt, check material levels, create a production order, goods issue, enter confirmation of production, enter goods receipt of production, and create production order.
MRP Exercise  Create BOM, display work centers, create routings, create product groups, run MRP (single item-multilevel), create sales & operations plan, transfer sales and operations plan to products, and create planned orders with MRP.
Human Resources Exercise (HR Org structures ) In this exercise, you will be creating some of the organizational structures for the fictitious company.
Case Study : Low Carb Dilemma Case Transactions:  Enter new material master records, create new vendor, create purchasing info records, purchase Splenda and Soy protein, create production data, set up sales views and prices, create sales order, and process production orders.

 

SAP Configuration    Introduces the configuration for SD (setup for sales and set customers and prices)

 

TEXTBOOK SAP Material  and  Online Resources

 

GRADING

Item

Percent of Grade

Quizzes (three)

50

Completion of SAP Exercises and Case study

40

Class Participation (attendance, interaction, meeting the deadline for completing the exercises, and others)

10

   

Class Schedule and Notes

Week

Topic

Class Notes

Class preparation

Sep 8

SAP Introduction &

 Navigation

 

 

Thursday

SAP Introduction

SAP Logon Details

Sep 12

Sales Order Process

 

Tuesday

What is ERP?

Business Processes

SAP Navigation Exercises

Thursday

Sales Order Process

Sales Order Process Exercises

(Due by Thursday 5P.M., September 29)

Sep 19

   

Tuesday

Thursday

 

Sep 26

Materials Management- Overview

Purchasing - MM Business Process

 

Tuesday

Materials Management- Overview - Guest Speaker

Thursday

Purchasing

Purchasing Cycle Exercise

(Due by Thursday 5P.M., October 13)

 

Oct 3

Credit and Receivables Risk Management  

 Tuesday

Quiz 1 Details

Thursday

Credit and Receivables Risk Management

 

Oct 10

 

 

Tuesday

*** Quiz 1 ***  Answers

Thursday

Credit and Receivables Risk Management Exercise

(Due by Thursday 5P.M., October 20)

Oct 17

 

 

Tuesday

Pricing in SD

Pricing using the Condition Technique- Exercises

(Due by Thursday 5P.M., October 27)

Thursday

Accounting

 

Oct 24

   

Tuesday

Sample Accounting Transactions

Accounting Exercise - Part 1

(Due by Thursday 5P.M., November 3)

 

Thursday

 

Oct 31

   

Tuesday

Quiz 2 Details

Test Cases - Due by Thursday 5P.M., November 17

Accounting Exercise (Posting & Reposting)

(Due by Thursday 5P.M., November 17)

Thursday

Accounting Exercise - Allocation via Statistical Key Figures

(Due by Thursday 5P.M., November 17)

 

Nov 7

 

 

Tuesday

Production Planning

Production Planning - Example

Thursday

*** Quiz 2 ***

Answers

Nov 14

   

Tuesday

Production Planning - Figures

Thursday

MRP Exercises

(Due by Tuesday 5P.M., November 29)

Nov 21

   

Tuesday

Production Order Exercise 

(Due by Tuesday 5P.M., November 29)

Thursday

Human Resources  

SAP HR Solution Map

Human Resources - Organizational Structure- Exercise

(Due by Tuesday 5P.M., December 6)

 

SYSPRO: Orientation Training Guide

SYSPRO: Solutions Training Guide

Case Study   Steps

Exercises:                      I, II, III IV, V, VI, VII, VIII

 

(Due by Tuesday 5P.M., December 13)

 

   Nov 28    

Tuesday

Thursday

*** Quiz 3  ***