International collaborative ERP education : development of SAP exercises and an evaluation tool

Abstract

Organizations increasingly operate in a global competetive environment using Enterprise Systems (ES) to support their operations. ES are complex systems and students struggle to grasp not only the underlying business concepts but also the technology involved. This working paper describes a set of exercises developed for a multinational cross-company collaboration assignment using a commercial ERP system from SAP. In addition we describe an evaluation tool used to assess the usage of the exercises in cources