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100% Online Unit. NO campus face-to-face attendance is required to complete this unit. All study requirements are online only. Unit is asynchronous delivery, with NO requirement for students to participate online at specific times.
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Regular attendance is not required, but student attends the institution face to face on an agreed schedule for purposes of supervision and/or instruction.
Multi-mode
Multiple modes of delivery. Unit includes a mix of online and on-campus study requirements. On campus attendance for some activities is required to complete this unit.
MGMT3335 Enterprise Systems
- Credit
- 6 points
- Offering
Availability Location Mode Not available in 2022 UWA (Perth) Face to face - Details for undergraduate courses
- Level 3 core unit in the Enterprise and Innovation major sequence
- Level 3 option in the Management major sequence
- Level 3 elective
- Content
- This unit provides students with a foundation in enterprise information (ERP) systems and identifies the key issues involved in acquiring and maintaining large-scale software systems in organisations. The unit provides students with a process view of organisations in which the impact of business activities can be seen across functional areas. The objective of the unit is to provide students with sufficient knowledge of enterprise systems so that they can appreciate the role and functionality of ERP software as well as being able to contribute effectively in projects for acquiring and enhancing ERP software. Topics include evolution of ERP systems; business functions and process; business process modelling; ERP requirements analysis; planning, design and implementation of ERP systems; ERP system modules, sales and marketing; accounting and finance; production and materials management; and human resources.
- Outcomes
- Students are able to (1) identify and analyse business information requirements; (2) conduct a feasibility analysis for ERP acquisition and make a justified recommendation; (3) prepare and use various information gathering techniques for eliciting user requirements and system expectations; (4) identify and describe the essential functionality of ERP software; (5) use formal process modelling techniques to map business processes; (6) efficiently navigate and access information in an ERP system; (7) assess the potential impacts of ERP implementations; and (8) develop teamwork skills.
- Assessment
- Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) tutorial/laboratory activities; (2) group assignment; and (3) examinations. Further information is available in the unit outline.Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.
Except where supplementary assessment is not available in a unit, it will be offered to students in all units who:
- Are in good academic standing overall;
- Have passed over half the units taken in the teaching period concerned, except where they are only enrolled in two or less units in the period;
- Have submitted all assessment items in the unit;
- Have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit; and
- No finding of academic misconduct has been made against them in the unit concerned.
Additionally student may apply for supplementary assessment in any unit which is the final unit required for graduation in there course and where they have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit.
- Unit Coordinator(s)
- Professor Peter Goldschmidt
- Unit rules
- Prerequisites:
- any two Level 2 units in the Management major or MGMT2311 Organisational Learning and Innovation
- Co-requisites:
- Nil.
- Incompatibility:
- Nil.
- Contact hours
- lectures/tutorials/seminars/workshops: up to 3 hours per week
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- Unit readings, including any essential textbooks, are listed in the unit outline for each unit, one week prior the commencement of study. The unit outline will be available via the LMS and the UWA Handbook one week prior the commencement of study. Reading lists and essential textbooks are subject to change each semester. Information on essential textbooks will also be made available on the Essential Textbooks. This website is updated regularly in the lead up to semester so content may change. It is recommended that students purchase essential textbooks for convenience due to the frequency with which they will be required during the unit. A limited number of textbooks will be made available from the Library in print and will also be made available online wherever possible. Essential textbooks can be purchased from the commercial vendors to secure the best deal. The Student Guild can provide assistance on where to purchase books if required. Books can be purchased second hand at the Guild Secondhand bookshop (second floor, Guild Village), which is located on campus.