ERP Systems, Architectures and Modeling (ERP)

Understand enterprise software in practice: You will become familiar with large-scale enterprise software systems, work with SAP software, and learn how business processes are managed digitally. Through various examples, you will gain insight into the challenges of modeling, implementing, and rolling out software that is used across global organizations.

Contents

• ERP basics, essentials of SAP ERP and S/4HANA
• technological principals and features of SAP ERP and S/4HANA
• operation of a SAP ERP system (3 system landscape, transport management, enhancement possibilities, authorizations and roles, productive use and integrated business processes)
• fundamentals of ABAP and ABAP OO, development tools, concepts and language elements
• Data Dictionary, database tables, data selection and manipulation using SQL
• list programming (reports) and ABAP List Viewer
• dialog programming and dynpros
• enhancement techniques (customizing, user-exits, workflow)

Competencies

Students are able to

• understand conceptions of ERP systems and get to know typical architectures and range of functions
• be concerned with system selection based on user requirements and specifications and understand the IT concepts for the implementation of business processes in an ERP system
• get an overview of enhancement possibilities to enhance SAP ERP or SAP S/4 HANA
• get to know typical business processes of large enterprises in different application areas, e.g. procurement, production, material management, sales, customer order fulfillment, human capital management, financial and managerial accounting, simulate business processes
• use development tools in SAP ERP and S/4HANA and the coding language ABAP, e.g. create DB tables, develop reports, model and implement workflows, try out dialog programming with dynpros to develop own applications

Literature

• S. Brunner et al., Schnelleinstieg in SAP S/4HANA. Bonn, Germany: Rheinwerk Verlag, 2021.
• C. Drumm et al., Einstieg in SAP S/4HANA: Am Beispiel Global Bike. Bonn, Germany: Rheinwerk Verlag, 2022.
• W. Fitznar and D. Fitznar, SAP S/4HANA: Der Grundkurs für Einsteiger und Anwender. Bonn, Germany: Rheinwerk Verlag, 2021.
• N. Gronau, ERP-Systeme, 3rd ed. Munich, Germany: Oldenbourg Verlag / De Gruyter, 2021.
• M. Hesseler and M. Görtz, Basiswissen ERP-Systeme: Auswahl, Einführung und Einsatz betriebswirtschaftlicher Standardsoftware, 7th ed. Herdecke/Witten, Germany: W3L Verlag, 2017.
• H. Keller, ABAP – Die offizielle Referenz, 4th ed. Bonn, Germany: Rheinwerk Verlag, 2016.
• H. Keller and S. Krüger, ABAP Objects, 3rd ed. Bonn, Germany: Galileo Press, 2006.
• G. Roth-Dietrich, Grundlagen und Methoden der Wirtschaftsinformatik. Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand, 2018.
• SAP University Competence Center Magdeburg, SAP S/4HANA-Fallstudien. Magdeburg, Germany: SAP University Competence Center Magdeburg.

Lecturer

• Prof. Dr. Gabriele Roth-Dietrich

Recommended Previous Knowledge 

• Abgeschlossenes Grundstudium
• Business Administration 3 (BWL3)
• Business Informatics 3 (WI3)
• Data Management (DM)
• Enterprise Computing Project (UP)
• Practical Semester (PS)

Module Details

Semester	6/7
Lecture Language	German
Frequency	Summer Term
Credit Points (ECTS)	5
Course Coordinator	Prof. Dr. Gabriele Roth-Dietrich
Duration	1 Semester
Course Achievement	None
Prerequisite for exam	None
Exam	Continuous Assessment (CA)

Weekly Hours (SWS) 

Lecture	2 SWS
Exercises	2 SWS
Sum	4 SWS

Work Load 

Lecture	30 h
Self Study	90 h
Assignments	30 h
Sum	150 h