MidSem Answer sheets review & P2P exercise - 1st March 13

Friday, 1st March 13, we will meet in academic complex computer lab at 8:30 AM.
We will review the answer sheets for midsem exam by each group, while others will start working on the P2P exercise. 

T1 answersheets - Monday 18th

On Monday, there will be no class being in the exam week.

You are, however, requested to review your T1 answersheets and marks obtained at my office in Production Engineering Department between 9:30AM and 10:30AM or later during lunch time between 12noon and 2PM.

On Wednesday, 20th, from 10AM to 12noon, the Mid semester exam will be conducted at Academic Complex computer Lab on Moodle. Please make sure you have access to Moodle and can log into the ERP2 course. If you are having any problem in accessing Moodle course then contact immediately Ms. Trishna at Data Center and get your problems resolved. The questions will be based on all theory and Lab sessions but there will be no questions related to the Assignment of ERP product study.

Procure To Pay (P2P) - 11 Feb 2013

This week we will start exploring the first major business scenario in Supply Chain Management.

Supply Chain Management starts from procurement of goods and services from suppliers and ends with delivering the finished or manufactured goods and services to the final consumer.

The first part of SCM is identified by the end to end business scenario known as Procure To Pay (commonly refered as P2P) or also known as Requisition to Pay or Purchase to Pay.

SAP ByD has configured following 3 variants of this business scenario. Business scenario Explorer provides following documentation of these scenarios. Please download these powerpoint presentations and display them on your PC in slide show mode.
Procure to Pay (Stock materials) http://goo.gl/e1SAn
Procure to Pay (Non Stock materials) http://goo.gl/lZxlV
Procure to Pay ( Services) http://goo.gl/gU4E8

In our first session, we will try to understand the process steps for Supply planning and Initiating Purchasing. We will look into all steps upto the stage of creating a material requisition for purchase. We will compare these process steps between these 3 different variants.

Finally, after completion of the session please fill in this feedback form http://goo.gl/c01NV 

ERP Lab 8 Feb 2013

We have learned a few things about ERP and how to navigate through SAP ByD product. Some students have very quickly absorbed while there are quite a few who have not been able to complete all Lab exercises. Those who have not completed the previous exercises are requested today to complete  the following three input forms based on the completion of respective exercises.
(1) SAP installation: After you complete SAP ByD installation and all the required other software components like MSOffice, Adobe etc, please fill in the form at http://goo.gl/Ga4N5. You should test the installation of some other student's PC and your PC should be checked by some other student
(2) SAP Navigation exercises are to be performed as directed in form http://goo.gl/5AS7s
(3) Organization and Employee Task exercises are explained in the self learning tutorial available on Moodle. You are requested to complete the exercises as explained in the video 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

Today is the last day for you to complete these 3 forms. No more extensions will be given.

For those of you, who have already completed all these assignments, you are requested to reformat and improve your Product Study assignment based on the MS Word template available at http://goo.gl/6iBhD  . An example of a filled in template is given in http://goo.gl/DmPV6.
Finally before the end of the day, all students are requested to submit the feedback form at http://goo.gl/z50eC

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