Department of Business Administration

Enterprise Resource Planning

Department of Business Administration

Course outline

(1)    General Information:

School

SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES

Department

Business Administration

Level of Studies

Undergraduate

Course code

507

Semester

5ο

Course title

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Weekly teaching hours
-

ECTS

 

4

5

 

  

Type of course

Elective – Informatics

 

Prerequisite course

Information Systems

 

Language of instruction and exams

Greek

The course is offered to Erasmus students

YES

Course URL

 

(2)    Learning outcomes:

Learning outcomes

 

The aim of the course is to introduce the student Business Information Systems, and to the concepts of digital transformation of businesses using integrated information systems. More specifically, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are the digital foundation for each enterprise. They were developed to satisfy the needs of organizations for managing efficiently human resources, financial operations, production and distribution of products, etc. as well as to integrate operations of an enterprise and to connect the organization with customers and suppliers, in real time.

 

Upon completion of the course the student is able to:

  1. To describe the basic terminology, concepts and architecture of Business Information Systems.
  2. To describe and explain the structure of a Business Information System (BIS).
  3. To know the basic modules of a BIS.
  4. To analyze and describe the impact of a BIS on the operation of an organization and its environment.
  5. To be able to understand the technologies used to support a BIS system.
  6. To be able to use a modern BIS
  7. -
  8. -
  9. -

General Skills

 

This course aims in addition to technical knowledge to help students develop generic competences and skills such as:

  • Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
  • Teamwork
  • Decision making

(3)    COURSE CONTENT

  • Introduction to ERP systems
  • Basic business functions
  • Production management systems
  • Warehouse management systems
  • Supply chain systems
  • E-commerce
  • Advanced information systems for production
  • ERP systems support services
  • ERP systems development projects

 

 

(4)    TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION

TEACHING METHOD

FACE-TO-FACE LECTURE, USE OF CASE STUDIES

 

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Use of ICT tools,

USING ICT TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATION (eclass)

TEACHING ORGANIZATION

Activity

Semester Workload

Lectures

40

Assignment

40

Self Study

70

  
  
  
  

Course Total Effort

150

STUDENT EVALUATION

Assignment- project- case study 40%

Final Exam 60%

 

(5)    BIBLIOGRAPHY

  1.        PanosFitsilis, Business Information Systems, 2ηEdition, Broken Hill, 2019, ISBN 9789925563722η Έκδοση, BrokenHill, 2019, ISBN 9789925563722
  2.        TasiopoulosΗ., ChatzigiannakisD. (2009), Business Organization with the help of SAP information system, Papasotiriou Publications, Athens.
  3.        Shtub A. (1999) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): The Dynamics of Operations Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers
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