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Paper (refereed) Industry/College Partnerships

Recommended Citation: Hensel, M and B Alexander. Using industry partnerships, corporate donations, and grants to create an ERP program. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2000, v 17 (Philadelphia): §300.

Using industry partnerships, corporate donations, and grants to create an ERP program

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Mark (Buzz) Hensel    [a1] [a2]
College of Business Administration
The University of Texas at Arlington    [u1] [u2]
Arlington, Texas, USA    [c1] [c2]

Bobby Alexander    [a1] [a2]
College of Business Administration
The University of Texas at Arlington    [u1] [u2]
Arlington, Texas, USA    [c1] [c2]

The demand for graduates trained in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and methodology has been steadily growing in the corporate community and there have not been enough employees available to fill industry demands for people able to use ERP software and to do ERP work. The College of Business Administration (CoBA) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) sought to fill this gap by joining an alliance with a major ERP vendor, SAP America. This paper describes the planning, preparation, implementation, and post implementation scenarios of the SAP R/3 software system deployment at UTA. It also discusses the college's efforts to integrate the R/3 software into the curricula as well as efforts to staff and fund the project.

Keywords: ERP, SAP R/3, University Alliance Program

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