Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 2 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

Enterprise Resource Planning plays an increasingly significant role in large corporations. ERP has evolved beyond its roots in the shop to the present corporate SAP or similar systems. Today, many business analysts consider ERP to be essential for effective corporate functionality and increased productivity for private and government organisations.

Aims

The aim of this unit is to equip you with the knowledge and tools for the effective management of resources. The unit lays the foundations for successful planning to meet production and service requirements. It will acquaint you with tools and activities so that you can effectively manage resources in your workplace, develop your skills through team based ERP improvement exercises, and develop your ability to prepare reports on capacity and performance improvement plans.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to demonstrate the following capabilities in a discipline specific context:
1. Have fundamental understanding of enterprise resource planning and its use in organisations.
2. Higher order analysis and critical thinking capability pertinent to manufacturing planning & control and engineering knowledge management.
3. A range of knowledge and thinking skills to solve problems relevant to enterprise resource planning and engineering knowledge management.
4. Identify the implementation variables, individual variables and contextual variables that interact to influence a successful enterprise system implementation.
5. Describe and make use of the major modules in ERP applications and relate them to business processes

Content

This unit will cover topics defining enterprise resource planning, its conceptual development, and perceptions. Specific topics are:

· Perspectives of Enterprise Resource Planning and Global Competition
· Planning, Design and Implementation of ERP
· Sales and Operations Planning, Introduction to SAP
· Accounting, Finance and HRM
· Demand Management, Customer Requirement Management (CRM)
· Production and Material Management (MPS, MRP, MRP II)
· Data Model/ Architecture of Enterprise system
· Supply Chain Integration
· Distribution Requirement Planning (DRP)
· Capacity Planning
· Production and Material Management and ERP

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Total Lecture hrs: 32 hrs
Total Tutorial/ Computer Lab hrs: 16 hrs

The unit will be conducted by means of conventional lecture, group discussion, team exercise and case studies. It will be taught in block mode and 32 hours of intensive lecture/tutorial will be conducted in two weeks and 16 hours of computer lab/tutorial will be conducted in 8 sessions. However, students will be engaged in team based project work throughout the semester.

Lectures will provide the knowledge base for the unit and the development of problem solving skills will be supported by tutorials and group projects. To introduce real life challenges, industry managers will be invited to conduct some of the lectures.

The content of the unit will be taught using the following teaching tools:
1. Formal lecture sessions will cover the theory and illustrate some practical applications. The lectures will guide you through the unit and show you how the material being studied. They will describe and illustrate key concepts using demonstrations and visual aids and cover issues relevant to the whole class. Lecture slides and some additional readings will be made available on-line using the Blackboard website prior to lectures.
2. Tutorial exercises will be used to test and develop your understanding. In particular, you will learn how real life problems are expressed using mathematical formulations. Computer labs will be used to introduce you with ERP software.
3. Project assignment will be used to develop information retrieval skills and to solve a broadly defined problem in a real life organisation. You will participate in a group project to define a problem, collect and analyse data and work with team members to develop and select appropriate solutions and recommend implementations with cost benefit analysis.

The learning and teaching approaches include: a) Problem-based learning, b) Independent, and c) peer and team-based learning.

Assessment

Your overall performance of this unit will be assessed three components: continuous in class problem solving, a team project and a final exam.You will receive feedback on your assessment tasks through discussion in the class and tutorial with written comments on the reports.

Assessment name: Problem Solving Task
Description: As part of a three/four member team, you will select a real industry problem and apply appropriate tools and techniques for optimal profit and productivity for a production process or service.
Relates to objectives: 2,3,4,5
Weight: 20%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 3

Assessment name: Project (applied)
Description: As part of a three/four member team, you will select a real industry problem and apply appropriate tools and techniques for optimal profit and productivity for a production or service.
Relates to objectives: 2, 3, 4 & 5
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
Due date: Week 13

Assessment name: Examination (written)
Description: This will be closed book exam for two hours. The exam will be based on lectures, tutorials and your group research project.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3 & 4
Weight: 50%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Exam Period

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Textbook: Manufacturing Planning and control systems. Vollmann, T. E.; Berry, W. L. and Whybark, D. C., Irwin Mc-Graw-Hill, New York, Sixth Edition.

References
1. ERP: making it happen : the implementers' guide to success with enterprise resource planning / Thomas F. Wallace, Michael H. Kremzar. Wiley, New York (2001).
2. SAP R/3 business blueprint : understanding enterprise supply chain management / Thomas A. Curran, An Curran, Thomas (Thomas Aidan), Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition.
3. Enterprise-wide software solutions : integration strategies and practices / Sergio Lozinsky, Addison-Wesley, (1998).
4. Managerial issues of enterprise resource planning systems / David L. Olson. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, (2004).
5. Enterprise integration / Kent Sandoe, Gail Corbitt, Raymond Boykin, Wiley, New York (2001).
6. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Shtub A. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (1999).
7. Operations management, Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J (2009).
Lecture Notes: As they appear On-Line at QUT Blackboard

Risk assessment statement

In general, there will be no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit. However, if you are spending part of your time for this project in the work place participating in a range of activities associated with professional practice you should make yourself familiar with the organisation's workplace health and safety plan/s. In addition, you should ensure that any relevant safety courses and safety permits/cards (such as site safety cards) have been attended or attained prior to participating in regulated activities such as site visits.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 20-Jun-2012