240113700 ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS ( 3 Crd.Hrs )

Semester Credit Hours: 3 (3,0) Course Overview The course introduces students to the underlying principles of information and business process integration in large organizations. This course discusses the state-of-the-art methods used for successfully integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems into extant enterprise architectures. Topics including user roles, enterprise architects, resource management and selection, implementation and management of large and complex enterprise applications will be covered during the course. The emphasis will be on the use of advanced information technology for integrating business functions through distributed databases for support of internal business functions. This will include a discussion of the idea behind selection and implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. A part of the course will be for "hands on" exercises with one of the available ERP software packages.