Class objective(s) (learning outcomes)

Every student implements the business case in a separate virtual company in SAP R/3. Students perform all steps which have to be implemented also in a real-world implementation project:

- Cost accounting - planning cycle: Implementation of cost accounting for a production environment, implementation of the value flow in a company (allocations, surcharges, activity inputs) in SAP R/3.
- Master data for the MRP process: organizational structure, materials master and material planning, product structure, cost centre planning and work centres, linkage between cost accounting and production/logistics, work centres, initialization of capacity planning, definition of routings.
- Sales projections and primary requirements.
- Procurement logistics and accounting: Master data in procurement, processing the purchase requisitions produced by the MRP run and deriving purchase orders, delivery and billing of the items ordered.
- Production planning and control: Entering and checking production orders, lot splitting/summarizing, capacity planning and smoothing, process-oriented customizing with respect to scheduling, availability check, calculation schemes, and order execution/confirmation.
- Cost accounting - actual costs: Production and procurement activities create actual costs enabling plan/actual analyses.
- Sales logistics and revenue accounting: Order processing, price determination, inventory management, customer management.

In all steps, students are confronted with a business case and have to implement the case in SAP R/3, that is, the system has to be customized to the given case.

Prerequisites according to degree program

SBWL Produktionsmanagement:
Grundkurs 1 - Strategisches Produktionsmanagement
Grundkurs 2 - Grundlagen des Operations Management

Teaching and learning method(s)

Content:
Understand the implementation of Production and logistics in an ERP system and its integration into management accounting.
Master data for the MRP process: Implementation of the organizational structure, materials master and material planning, product structure, cost centre planning and work centres, linkage between cost accounting and production/logistics, work centres and their capacity, routings.
MRP and accounting: Deriving sales projections and primary requirements, MRP, planned production orders and purchase requisitions, customizing the MRP process, linking MRP to accounting.
Procurement logistics and accounting: Master data in procurement, information records, processing the purchase requisitions produced by the MRP run and deriving purchase orders; delivery and billing of the items ordered.
Production planning and control: Entering and checking production orders, lot splitting/summarizing, capacity planning and smoothing; process-oriented customizing with respect to scheduling, availavility check, calculation schemes, and order execution/confirmation.
Sales logistics and revenue accounting: Selling items, price determination, accounting, inventory management, customer management (credit limit, customer-specific discounts, etc.).
Specific Teaching Strategies:
Interactive, problem-based lectures and seminars will demonstrate the linkages between concept and practise for the above-mentioned processes through illustrating in real-time how these matters can be implemented in SAP R/3. Entity Relationship Models for master data entry and Event-driven Process Chains (EPCs) for operational processes will help students to navigate through the R/3 system and to see the link between the concept to be implemented and the actual information system.

In case of restricted admission; selection criteria

Sequencing criteria of students of SBWL and WI apply.

Criteria for successful completion

Method of Assessment:
Written exam (individual) 40%
assesses the conceptual component of the subject (EPC, ERM).
Practical exam using the SAP R/3 system (individual) 40%
assesses the application component of the subject.
Two progress checks in the implementation of the case study: 10% each.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The written exam (and the overall result) have to be positive to pass.

Availability of instructor(s) for contact by students

mailto:alexander.prosser@wu-wien.ac.at

Miscellaneous

Text:
Prosser, A.; Taudes, A.; Weiss, K. : Integration Management with SAP R/3, WUV, Vienna 2001.
Associated material at http://erp.wu-wien.ac.at

Content:
Understand the implementation of Production and logistics in an ERP system and its integration into management accounting.
Master data for the MRP process: Implementation of the organizational structure, materials master and material planning, product structure, cost centre planning and work centres, linkage between cost accounting and production/logistics, work centres and their capacity, routings.
MRP and accounting: Deriving sales projections and primary requirements, MRP, planned production orders and purchase requisitions, customizing the MRP process, linking MRP to accounting.
Procurement logistics and accounting: Master data in procurement, information records, processing the purchase requisitions produced by the MRP run and deriving purchase orders; delivery and billing of the items ordered.
Production planning and control: Entering and checking production orders, lot splitting/summarizing, capacity planning and smoothing; process-oriented customizing with respect to scheduling, availavility check, calculation schemes, and order execution/confirmation.
Sales logistics and revenue accounting: Selling items, price determination, accounting, inventory management, customer management (credit limit, customer-specific discounts, etc.).
Specific Teaching Strategies:
Interactive, problem-based lectures and seminars will demonstrate the linkages between concept and practise for the above-mentioned processes through illustrating in real-time how these matters can be implemented in SAP R/3. Entity Relationship Models for master data entry and Event-driven Process Chains (EPCs) for operational processes will help students to navigate through the R/3 system and to see the link between the concept to be implemented and the actual information system.