Written Test

We now have final decision that test can not be conducted online. You are getting first hand experience of the challenges faced in implementing Enterprise systems. When several users start using the system simultaneously and it is mission critical task, then performance, reliability etc. become very critical. Imagine what challenges you will have when implementing ERP systems for hundreds of thousands of employees for doing hundreds of mission critical processes simultaneously.

Now the exam will be a written test but you will have all objective questions. Some questions will be from what you have compiled. Those question bank links I have given you in my yesterday's post. Link for O2C was wrong. Now it is corrected. There will be some more questions which will cover topics that we studied before mid term exam. There will be about 75 questions for about 30 marks to be completed in 40 minutes.

Because of all this recompilation of exam papers and making copies etc. I was not able to update your marks for Lab exercises and product study presentations. I will finish that in next couple of days.

Wish you all good luck for the exam.

End Sem Exam 24th April 2013

Please review the following 3 spreadsheets which contain all the questions that you have submitted and read my remarks in front of your question if any.
http://goo.gl/PC8mE      P2P questions
http://goo.gl/BT6mH      A2I questions
http://goo.gl/Fw6jz        O2C questions (Now the link is corrected)

I had planned to give the online test with Moodle but the Moodle servers do not seem to provide adequate capacity. I am looking at alternatives but please be prepared for written exam as well.

If there is any need to change venue or something else then please read on this blog post tomorrow morning.

Wish the very best in your exam.

Wednesday 17th lecture

This will be the last lecture in this course. After midterm, with smaller batch sizes, most of you have been able to complete lab assignments in a much better manner.

P2P and A2I assignment, extended date for final submission was 1st April. But following few students  have as yet not submitted their forms.

P2P submissions: At least 1 team member was expected to submit the form. Following teams have not submitted the form properly as yet.
Civil2 no submission, Engineers and MKCP have submitted same form, Schemia form is submitted half complete.

A2I submissions are not received from the following:
7028 Urjit, 1022 Priyanka, 0015 Umema, 0111 Juee, 1045 Swanand, 3024 , Onkar, 3032 Jayant, 1010 Deepa.

O2C lab assignment few students had a problem in completion due to insufficient stock. I have increased the stock to 1000 of each part and hence everyone should be able to complete O2C assignment. The O2C forms will be accepted until end of the day Wednesday 17th.
Following is the list of students who have as yet not submitted the form : 1004 Dhanashri, 1024 Akanksha, 1045 Swanand, 1052 Amita, 3019 Yash, 5053 Karishma, 5078 Lokesh, 0044 Dhirajkumar, 0137 Anurag, ( 0141 Akshay, 0146 Saurabh, 0149 Umesh, 0177 Anuket, 0178 Siddhartha, 1007 Ankita, 9002 Aniket, 9006 Jamadar.

On Wednesday, we will briefly cover one last topic of this course - Reporting.

The End Semester Exam is scheduled on next Wednesday, 24th April. This will be online test on Moodle for about 40 minutes for 30 marks. The objective questions will be on various business processes covered after mid semester as well as topics covered prior to mid semester.

The remaining ERP product study presentations will be on Thursday evening ( MTech Proj Mgt),  Friday morning and all the remaining will be on Saturday morning, 2 batches, 8:30 to 10:30Am and 11am to 1pm.

Thank you for attending the entire semester course with patience. I hope you are now feeling little more confident about ERP and will equip you to take better career decisions.

Wednesday Lecture cancelled because of the visit of Nobel Laureate

As directed by Dean Academics, ERP lecture on Wednesday, 10th April is cancelled.
Those of you who have received the passes to attend the meeting with Nobel Laureate are requested to positively be present at the event.

Please continue completion of O2C and PM exercises at your own convenience. As scheduled, presentations will be organized on Friday (12th) this week.

Order To Cash (O2C) Sales from Stock variant Lab April 5 onwards

As a last step in our course, you are requested to complete 2 exercises in the Order To  Cash scenario.

The first exercise is the process variant for "Sell from Stock" which is the most common situation. The related Business Process Procedure (BPP), the scenario documentation and Book on Sales process are all available on Moodle for the week April 1st to 7th. Please read through all these documents and complete the exercise steps and finally submit the form http://goo.gl/zf1V5

Please also prepare one objective question of the form Multiple choice or True/False or Match as per the following topics assigned to you and submit at http://goo.gl/VdQoC To learn more about your topic you can read through the Book available on Moodle.

Friday Batch	Monday Batch	Saturday Batch	Sales Topic
111003004		110807069	Tax Determination
111003019	111001004	111001010	Value Added Tax
111003029	111001022	111001012	Business Partners
111003031	111005028	111001024	Business Partner Roles
111003048	111005033	111001028	Party Determination
111003058	111005077	111001045	Sales Quote
111003060	111005078	111001052	Document Flow
111003089	111009001	111003024	Sales Quote Workflow
111007028	111009008	111003032	Lead Funnel
111007060	111009011	111005018	Opportunity Funnel
111007069	111009012	111005047	Opportunity Pipeline
111008004	111009080	111005053	Opportunity Volume
111008040	111010044	111005058	Sales Quote Funnel and Success Rate
111008042	111011011	111005061	Pricing in Custome Relationship Management
111008051	111011033	111007001	Price Components
111008063	111011047	111007002	List Price
111008064	111011060	111007015	Product Discount %
111008067	111011064	111007026	Working Condition %
111008078	111013004	111007029	Surcharge
111009036	111013040	111007039	Warranty/ Goodwill
111010015	111013061	111010026	Frieght
111010060	141101007	111010027	Scales
111010111	141109002	111010042	Mass Change of Materials
111010141	141109006	111010047	Assigning status to materials
111010146	141113007	111010058	Sales of Services
111010149	141113008	111010137	Service description in other languages
111010177		111011046	Product Catalog
111010178		111011051	Customer Returns Processing
141108007		111011058	Output History
		141111009	Invoice duplicate

Product Study Assignment - final presentations

We have come towards the end of our Introduction to ERP course. You have learned about the essential features of the ERP and then get some hands-on practice of SAP-ByD ERP product. In this short period, all you were able to learn, was to appreciate what ERP application and underlying technology is. You have practiced few very elementary business processes of procurement and sales. In real life, you will be faced with some extremely complex processes in manufacturing, supply chain management, warehousing, financial and market planning and forecasting etc. Generally to learn all complexities of advanced ERP products it takes a few years. From next year, COEP is planning to introduce a post diploma with 12 courses in ERP with SAP certification and project work. Keep tuned to know more about this and spread the word around.

While you have got some exposure to one of the easy to use SAP ERP products (ByD), you were also asked to study one of the thousands of other ERP products in the market. As a student of ERP, it is important for you to have a very broad understanding and hence the final step in this course is to do self study of one other ERP product and share your knowledge with your other classmates. In the last 3 weeks of the course, you will make a short 10 minute presentation of the product that you have studied and submitted a written report as the assignment. You will also listen to all other students in your batch and help me do a collaborative assessment.

The schedule of presentations is available in a spreadsheet at  http://goo.gl/hP57b. Please note that if you are not present at the specified time allocated to you, then it will not be possible to give you an alternative time slot and you will lose all marks reserved for this presentation. You will get max 5 marks for your presentation and 5 marks for submitting your assessments of other presentations.

Please prepare your presentation as per this template http://goo.gl/yT4ev . I am expecting some SAP consulting partner representatives to listen to your presentations and hence please show your best at the presentation time. All presentations will be organized in CAD classroom of Prof Arati Mulay in the Production Engineering department. Please bring your presentations in the MSPowerpoint format on a USB pen drive.