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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

• RMACKINN@STFX.CA

• 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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Questions?RMACKINN@STFX.CA

Sap Index

juliet.stfx.ca/~infosys/sapindex.htm

PPT Slides

www.stfx.ca/people/infosys/sap/ppt/