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| Dr Satya Prattipati | Dr. Ralph Grambo | Dr. Michael Mensah | Dr S.P.Chattopadhyay |
| Management Information Systems | Financial Management | Accounting | Marketing |
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| Dr. Rose Sebastianelli | Dr. Kingsley Gnanendran | ||
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Enterprise Management through Information Technology
Because of increasing globalization, mergers & acquisitions, increasing pressures on costs, and intense competition, many organizations have started focussing on integrated enterprise management. Traditionally the focus has been on the functional areas of an organization. Now more and more organizations talk about seamless integration between functional areas and sharing of data and information across the enterprise.
Recent advances in information and communication technologies have played a major role in shifting the focus to enterprise management. It is now possible to design customized information networks that can instantly link desktops within the enterprise with factories, branch offices, business partners, and customers around the globe.
The goal of enterprise management is to make sure a company focuses on creating value for customers - Integrating all critical business processes and addressing the management of whole processes, not just the management of individual tasks.
What is SAP?
SAP is the leading Enterprise Information and Management Package worldwide. Use of this package makes it possible to track and manage, in real-time, sales, production, finance accounting and human resources in an enterprise. Traditional computer information systems used by many businesses today have been developed to accomplish some specific tasks and provide reports and analysis of events that have already taken place. Examples are accounting general ledger systems. Occasionally, some systems operate in a "real-time" mode that is, have up to date information in them and can be used to actually control events.
A typical company has many separate systems to manage different processes like production, sales and accounting. Each of these systems has its own databases and seldom passes information to other systems in a timely manner. SAP takes a different approach. There is only one information system in an enterprise, SAP. All applications access common data. Real events in the business initiate transactions. Accounting is done automatically by events in sales and production. Sales can see when products can be delivered. Production schedules are driven by sales. The whole system is designed to be real-time and not historical. SAP structure embodies what are considered the "best business practices". A company implementing SAP adapts its operations to it to achieve its efficiencies and power.
The motto of SAP is "A Better Return on Information"
INTEGRATION IN CURRICULUM
SAP R/3 technology is being introduced into the business curriculum at the undergraduate and MBA level. During the current academic year the following courses are SAP Enabled which means that students are required to use the SAP R/3 system installed at the Kania School to gain practical work related to the subject matter of the course.
MBA
MGT559 Enterprise Management Systems
OIM545 Total Quality Management
Undergraduate
FIN361 Working Capital Management
MAR 361 Marketing Research