Ahmad Syamil, Ph.D., CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP

Associate Professor

Department of Computer and Information Technology
College of Business

Arkansas State University

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Spring 2007

MIS 6483 Supply Chain & Enterprise Systems  Study of the integration of internal and external supply chains.  Adopts both information technology and managerial  perspectives.  Addresses Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),  and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), along with their respective support processes. 

Syllabus

Textbooks:

Textbook #1: Enterprise Resource Planning by Mary Sumner, Prentice Hall, 2006.

Enterprise Resource Planning

Click here to get PowerPoint slides, etc.

Important files

1. Intro to ERP SAP (4 MB slides)

2. SAP R3 Lotus ScreenCam (16 MB movie)

3. ERP System Handout - Chapter 6 Production and Materials Management

4. SCM and ERP handout (I will add more slides when we discuss more chapters)

VENDOR OR RESEARCH ARTICLES

The (biased) articles below can help you work on your project .

Financial justifications:
Total cost of ERP ownership - vendor comparison (excellent article)
SAP Business One for  Small and Medium Sized Business Market

The Return of Investment (ROI) of Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (GP) in the Enterprise Market

The Return of Investment (ROI) of Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (GP) in the  Small and Medium Sized
Business Market
The Real ROI from Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Business Solutions) - Axapta (AX)
ROI Case Study: Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Business Solutions) Axapta (AX) for North Atlantic Industries
Others:
How Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (GP) beats SAGE/Best Software MAS 90/200 (You may not use GP, 
but this article gives you an example of how to compare different ERP packages).

Microsoft Dynamics Axapta (AX) 4.0 Standard Benchmark (Simulation) on Hewlett - Packard Proliant Servers

Textbook # 2: Supply Chain Management (3rd Edition), by Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl,  Prentice Hall, 2006.

Supply Chain Management (3rd Edition)

You have two options to download the Excel files:

1. Textbook's publisher: It also has files for other textbooks

2. My website in a zip file (500 KB)

You have two options to download the PowerPoint slides:

1. The entire PowerPoint slides in a zip file (800 KB)

2. Download the slides chapter by chapter:

PART I: BUILDING A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE SUPPLY CHAINS

 

Chapter 1: Understanding the Supply Chain

 

Chapter 2: Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope

 

Chapter 3:  Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics

 

 

PART II: DESIGNING THE SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK

 

Chapter 4:  Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to e-Business

 

Chapter 5:  Network Design in the Supply Chain

 

Chapter 6:  Network Design in an Uncertain Environment

 

 

PART III: Planning Demand and Supply in a Supply Chain

 

Chapter 7:  Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain

 

                 Chapter 7 Excel Handout: Optimizing Holt-Winter's method for mixed seasonal effects. Refer to page 202 of your textbook

 

Chapter 8:  Aggregate Planning in the Supply Chain

 

               Chapter 8 PPT Handout: Linear Programming 

 

Chapter 9:  Planning Supply and Demand in the Supply Chain: Managing Predictable Variability

 

 

PART IV: Planning and Managing Inventories in a Supply Chain

 

Chapter 10:  Managing Economies of Scale in the Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory

 

Chapter 11:  Managing Uncertainty in the Supply Chain: Safety Inventory

 

Chapter 12:  Determining Optimal Level of Product Availability (Get this file. The PPT zip file contains an incomplete chapter 12 PPT file).

 

PART V: Designing and Planning Transportation Networks

 

Chapter 13:  Transportation in the Supply Chain

 

PART VI: Managing Cross-Functional Drivers in the Supply Chain

 

Chapter 14:  Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain

 

Chapter 15:  Pricing and Revenue Management in the Supply Chain

 

Chapter 16:  Information Technology and the Supply Chain

 

Chapter 17:  Coordination in the Supply Chain
 

   
 

Supply Chain Management Game:

The Supply Chain Game was developed under the supervision of Dr. Sunil Chopra 
(IBM Distinguished Professor, Northwestern University) and Dr. Philipp Afeche 
(University of Toronto,  previously  at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University).
 
           Game registration: If you are my student, click here to register before playing the SCM game.
 
           Play the game: After you register, click here to play the SCM game.

Game manual:

Game 1: Single location, single factory, single warehouse.

Game 2 Multiple locations, multiple factories, multiple warehouses.