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Enterprise Information Systems

Objectives

Among the many challenges of today, the constant changes in the economy, trends in various industries, the rising of customer expectations, the internationalization, and the endless need to reduce costs are at the forefront of managers actions. Despite all these challenges, the opportunities are based on an agile, flexible and fully integrated management. The use of business information systems designed to address these challenges, provide the management in infrastructure for companies get advantage of new opportunities. The development of an information system that supports the development of a management model relies heavily on knowing, articulate, use and extract the value of various types of enterprise applications such as ERP (Enterprise Resourse Planning), SCM (Supply Chain Management), HCM (Human Capital Management), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), and e-Commerce. Thus, the discipline of Enterprise Information Systems focuses on how advances in business information systems are constantly redefining the role and value of information systems in business and management. Students will have the opportunity to materialize the above challenges in training activities in the business applications of SAP.

General characterization

Code

100096

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Maria Manuela Simões Aparício da Costa

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English

Prerequisites

Approved in Information Systems course.
The course will be lectured in English.

Bibliography

Laudon, Kenneth C. and Laudon (2012). Management Information Systems (12th Edition), Prentice Hall, ISBN:978-0-13-607846-3; O'Brien, James A. and Marakas, George (2005). Management Information Systems (7th Edition). McGraw-Hill/Irwin, ISBN:007293588.; 0; 0; 0

Teaching method

This course will be leaded by theoretical and practical sessions, associated with case studies analysis and hands
on labs using a real ERP (SAP). After each learning unit students will have a quiz for self-learning purposes of the theoretical part.

Evaluation method

1st Option (1st season)
a) Continuous evaluation (Case-studies analysis and presentation): 20%
b) Project analysis and presentation: 30%
c) Lab work: Certificate
d) Exam: 50%


2nd Option (2nd season)
a) Continuous evaluation (Case-studies analysis and presentation): 20%
b) Project analysis and presentation: 30%
c) Lab work: Certificate
d) Exam: 50%


3rd Option (2nd season) - students with especial status
a) Project and case-studies analysis: 50%
b) Exam: 50%


Notes: Students will only obtain approval if they also score a minimum value of 9,5 on each tests/Exam,
regardless classification attained on a), b) and c).

Subject matter

LU1: Information Systems for enterprises.
LU2: Enterprise applications.
LU3: ERP (Enterprise Resourse Planning).
LU4: SCM (Supply Chain Management).
LU5: HCM (Human Capital Management).
LU6: CRM (Customer Relationship Management).
LU7: E-Commerce.