Workforce admin Lab - 1st Feb 2013

Friday morning 8:30am we will meet in the Academic block ground floor computer lab.

ERP consists of various business scenarios and during this course, we will execute several business scenarios using SAP ByD by taking many different job roles in the dummy company "Almika Pvt Ltd" We will start with first business scenario of "Workforce Administration"

This scenario will require 2 different roles. A workforce administrator ( someone from HR or Personnel department) and the employee himself or herself.

We will start by initially assigning the authorizations for workfoce administrator to one student from each team. This workforce administrator will transfer the other team members from existing Mumbai Headqurters to another department of Finance. There after as given in the "Business Process Procedure (BPP)" document the workforce administrator and employee will perform all tasks in the sequence specified in the BPP.

You are also requested to start preparing revised improved assignment document for the ERP Product that you are studying for the past few weeks. The revised assignment document should be resubmitted latest by 15th February. Please note,  I do not accept the assignments after the due date. Therefore those who could not submit their first version of assignment document on due date can not submit it now. Now I have written very clear instructions on how the assignment document should be prepared on the Moodle course page. Please carefully read and follow those instructions.

Lecture on Wednesday 30th Jan 13

On Wednesday 30th, we will meet in Classroom No. 5 of the Production Engineering Department at 9:30am.

Many of you could not attend the Monday Lab, because of your participation in Zest festival. All those who missed their Lab session on Monday, are requested to complete the exercises as explained in the vido demo tutorials available on the ftp software server on the COEP website. Watch these video tutorials to understand the steps, then perform these steps manually by logging into SAP ByD software and do it yourself. Finally, log in the results into the input form at http://goo.gl/cLKz5

From this week, we are going to start learning about various business scenarios available in ByD. The first scenario we will be studying is about "Workforce Administration". This will give you an idea about how a scenario is defined, docuimented in a flow chart, how the execution steps are to be followed, where to look for the business logic behind the scenario, what are the variations etc. Same pattern of information will be available for all the following scenarios and exercises in the course.

We also briefly talk about the T1 test that will be conducted on next Wednesday, 6th Feb.

So far, you have completed following Lab/Project/Assignments to help you get a practical understanding of ERP.

1. You have studied one Enterprise system product and you will continue to explore that product in many different aspects in this course. Many of you have done good exploration and your report  well prepared. However, many others were not upto my expectations. I am going to explain what is required and I would like you to make necessary improvements before we go to the next level of investigations.
2. You learned about ByD navigation and general structure of the product.
3. You did the exercise on Organizational and employee tasks.
4. Now this week, you will do the Workforce Administration business scenarios.

If you have any questions, then please see me in my office tomorrow after the lecture.

ERP Lab 28th Jan 2013

Majority of you have submitted the assignment about the ERP Product study. I plan to give you a feedback and follow up work plan on Wednesday.

This week, I would like you to make sure that you have gone through all tasks of Home work center. Before th eend of the lab session please fill in the input form at http://goo.gl/cLKz5

Product Study presentations - 23rd Jan 2013

The Navigation exercise was completed in our Lab session on 21st. Many of you were absent, assuming that the Monday Lab sessions are optional. Please remember Monday Lab is not optional although the type of work you may do is of the nature of Practicing. All students are required to complete this exercisebased on the input form http://goo.gl/5AS7s

Upto this time, we have studied basic concepts about Enterprise systems, ERP, Cloud computing etc. In the Lab, we have studied high level features of SAP ByD product and learned to navigate through the product. Various powerpoint presentations used in the class are now budled together in a zip file and it is now available for download on the COEP ftp server with file name "Part 1 Concepts and Navigation.zip" in the folder name "ERP ByD". The T1 test scheduled for the week after Zest festival will include all topics covered in this zip file.

On 23rd January all teams will present in 2 minutes each team, the products their team members have studied with high level description and comparative information. We must start sharp at 9:30AM, else we will not be able to complete all presentations by 10:30. Your file submission on Moodle should be complete on or before Tuesday, 22nd January. You will not be able make this submission any time after 23rd. 

Navigation Lab 21st Jan 2013

Please use the form http://goo.gl/5AS7s and complete the ByD Navigation exercise

SAP Cloud, on demand and ByD Product strategy 18 Jan 2013

On Friday 18th January 2013, we will meet at 8:30AM in the ground floor lab in academic building. Unfortunately, internet connectivity is not available and therefore instead of lab session, we will cover some theory power point presentations.

In the Enterprise systems world, Cloud Computing, on Demand application services (SaaS, PaaS etc.) are on the bleading edge technology front. We will try to understand how SAP is providing it's solutions with all these leading edge technologies.

We will also study the details of the Almika Pvt Lts, the dummy company created in ByD which we will be using to perform our lab exercises.

I am expecting all team reports uploaded on Moodle about the enterprise system product that you have studied. Next week, I will request you to make a small presentation about th eproduct that youhave studied for the benefit of all your other colleagues.

The feedback form for Friday 18th lecture will be posted at this blog site after finishing the class.

ERP Overview - 16th Jan 2013

Last week, we discussed at a high level what is an Enterprise System? Your team has also explored various Enterprise System products commercially available in the market and each one of you has been assigned one Enterprise system product for detailed study.

Now we are going to get an overview of what is ERP? ERP is one category of Enterprise Systems. We will revisit definition of ERP, essential characteristics, application architecture and system architecture. ERP in essence is a system to optimize the business processes in an organization. Therefore, we will also try to understand something about business processes. We will also review major ERP vendors. In the class you will try to analyse all these features related to the ES product that has been assigned to you for detailed study.

After the class, please upload the team report of each product that your team members have studied including about 10 to 20 lines of general description of the product, end-to-end business processes managed by the product, a business process diagram for one end-to-end process, application architecture, system architecture and short description of the vendor.

Finally please fill in the feedback form at http://goo.gl/HnsJR

Following students who are registered to attend "Intro to ERP" elective course have attended only 2 or less classes. Therefore these students will not be able to keep pace with the rest of the students of the class. I am, therefore, requesting the following students to attend the classes with the 2nd batch of students which includes M.Tech.(Proj Mgt) students. This 2nd batch will meet every Thursday 3:30 to 5:30pm and Friday 8:30 to 10:30AM.

111003024	HABBU ONKAR SADANAND
111005018	GOYAL POOJA PAPALAL
111005033	MOHATA VINIT SUBHASH
111005053	PATIL KARISHMA SUNIL
111005061	BANGADE SAURABH VASANT
111007002	CHIDREWAR PRASAD NARAYANRAO
111007026	SWAMI YOGESH MANOHAR
111010027	PINJARI NEHAKAUSAR SHAIKH RAMJAN
111010044	JANGID DHIRAJKUMAR BAJARANGLAL
111011046	BAWANE KAUSTUBH KRISHNA
111011047	AJANTIWALAY TANVI ANIL
141109002	JANGAM ANIKET ANANT
141109006	JAMADAR MOHAMMED ISMAIL IBRAHIM
141110016	DAHAKE SWAPNIL ASHOK

Navigation 11th Jan 13

Today you should have completed SAP installation and looked through Navigation features.
Please fill in the form http://goo.gl/0FqFP for your today's attendance.

Your team is now required to search for various Enterprise systems available in the market. Of all these product available in the market, select 4 or 5 products for detailed study. Assign one Enterprise system to each team member. Each team member should complete in-depth study of the product that is assigne to him/her. Create one shared document on Google Docs for the team. Each team member will add about 20 lines of summary about the product that he/she has studied. Have this report ready before our next meeting on Wednesday in Classroom 5 in Prod Engg department.

Monday being the Makar Sancranti holiday, we will not have classed.

Enterprise Systems Overview

Today's lecture session is in Classroom # 5 of Prodn Engg dept.
All future Wednesday lectures will be in classroom # 5 of Prodn Engg Dept.
At the end of the session, please fill in the online form at http://goo.gl/Cl0fD

Today, we had more students joining the class. I propose to take make up sessions for all the new students today evening at 5:30pm on the ground floor Lab in Academic Block. If you have not attended any of the first 3 lectures then you should attend the make up the session.

Installation and Navigation

Please note: The lecture session on 9th January will be in classroom # 6 (SIX) instead of Room 16 that was mentioned earlier.
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Today, on 4th January, you have seen a demo of how to install SAP ByD and navigate through the system. Now you need to install the system on the work station that you will be using all through the course. Please also go ahead and install ByD on your personal laptop or PC which you may like to use for completing home assignments and additional practice.

Now you need to get your personal Log in ID and password. 4 Team Leader are identified from your class who can create you as the user on the system. Following team leaders are assigned the task of creating LogIn IDs :
Akhsay Rajankar for Civil and Metallurgy students
Bhavik Patel  for Computer and IT
Pratiksha Kale  for  Mechanical and Production students
Lokesh Bais  for  Lectrical, E&TC and Instrumentation
If you have any difficulty in getting your User ID from any of these team leaders then please immediately contact me ( x 7296) , Prof Mulay ( x 7289) or Kiram Pawar in Lab.

The ByD online Help is very powerful. Any time you have a problem or question just search in Help documentation. Now that your system is installed and you have log in information, please take the elearning course available in your help system. From the Home work center, click Help Center on the right side Info Bar. The Help panel will expand on the right side of the screen. In the Help panel, scroll down upto "You can Also" and click the link "Open Learning Center". Click the course "Introduction to SAP Business ByDesign". This is about 1 and half hour course. Please complete it by Monday 7th.

On Monday 7th, the lab session will be from 9:30AM to 10:30AM. Kiran Pawar will be available for any help required. Please install SAP ByD on your work station. You will also need to install some other software tools like MSOffice and Adobe reader, Flash etc. Your browser settings also may require some changes. Take assistance from Kiran Pawar because you will need admin log in for few tasks. Finally when you complete installation of your work station, you are required to ask some other student from the class to verify your installation. Similarly you should check installation of some other student and then fill in this online form http://goo.gl/Ga4N5

The next lecture will be on "ERP Overiew" at Classroom no. 16 in Production Engineering department on Wednesday , 9th January from 9:30AM to 10:30AM.

Following Lab session will be on 11th January, from 8:30AM to 10:30AM and you will have small online test based on what you have learned about navigation and from the elearning course that you will complete from Learning Center.

Lab Session - SAP ByD Installation

On 2nd Jan we had our first class to review the course profile. We had the typical initial starting troubles - set up laptop, overhead projector etc. The first year students joined our class and we did not know about it until half the class was over. Well, I guess, now we know better.

From Friday, there will be change in timing of our Lab sessions and location for theory sessions.
We will meet 3 times a week as under:
Monday       9:30 to 10:30  Admin block first floor for Lab session
Wednesday 9:30 to 10:30   Classroom # 16 in Production Engineering Dept.  for Theory class
Friday         8:30 to 10:30   Admin Block Ground floor.

To get prepared for the course, few steps have to be completed. During this course, you will be performing various team assignments and hence each student will be part of a team of about 5 students. Generally you will be able to form 2 or 3 teams in each branch, but feel free to select team members from other branches if required. Give your team a name. Then inform me you are part of which team in the Feedback form.
To get prepared you also need to have the ability to use all the tools and software like Moodle, SAP ByD, Blogs, wikis etc. Please inform me whether you are comfortable in use of these tools.

Please fill in the form at http://goo.gl/2poaH

On 4th January, Select the work station that you will be using all through the year. Then test and see if you can use Moodle from your work station, read the blog etc.  Install ByD client software on your work station.