1. Chendil Nathan T. Vijay
Elective Course on Enterprise System Concepts

2.  29 years of overall experience of which 13 years SAP consulting experience and 16 years of
Functional experience in various industry sectors like Fertilizers, Chemicals, Plastics, and
Piping.
 Currently heading the Service Delivery managing ITTS Services in SAP Global Delivery.
 Worked extensively as a Deliver Head, Delivery Stakeholder Manager responsible for EMEA,
Consulting & Education Manager, Program Manager, Project Manager, Team Lead, Consultant,
Business Analyst and solutions architect. Has architected solutions in the Core ERP-SD, PP and
PS for large Public Sector Companies.
 The breadth of verticals in the SAP consulting experience spans across Iron and Steel, Oil & Gas,
Engineering & Projects and Consumer Products. Well acquainted with the entire system
development life-cycle and has been actively involved in systems analysis and requirement
specifications, design, logical & physical data modeling, development, implementation and
quality control.
 ERP assignments have been in the areas of discrete and process industries. His other
assignments have been in the areas of IT solution implementation, package development,
implementation support, business process redesign. He was also involved in the Business
Development in concept selling for R/3 implementation.
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4. Objectives:
 1. To understand the key business issues that
demands a need for enterprise systems and
applications
 2. To understand the concepts of integrated
enterprise information systems
 3. To understand the business and
managerial challenges in developing or
deploying enterprise systems in
organizations

5. 1. The enterprise applications from business
context.
2. The integrated enterprise
systems/applications concepts.
3. An exposure to the challenges in the
implementation of these systems.
4. Evolving systems and applications around
the enterprise systems

6.  Business environment and key challenges
 Information Technology and its Strategic
Impact
 Initiatives and systems to support
organizational objectives. BPR, VMI, ISO, JIT,
ABC, Supply Chain, TQC, MRP, MRP-II, etc
 IT Strategy, IT Architecture and Applications
Portfolio
 Buy/Develop Applications

7.  Evolution of IT systems
 Overview of Enterprise Resource Planning
 Difference between Traditional and Enterprise
Information Systems
 Evolution of Enterprise Resource Computing
Systems

8.  Business Processes, BPR, Best Practices in ERP
& BPR options

9.  Market Overview
 Upstream and Downstream businesses –
Characteristics & Differences
 Partner Types

10.  Optional means of developing an ERP
 ERP and ERP driven IT
 Measurement of project impact
 IT selection
 IT project approval
 ERP proposal evaluation
 Project Evaluation Techniques

11.  Client Server Architecture
 Enterprise Systems Landscape
 Enterprise Systems Platform and Tools
 Technical architecture and components
 Functional modules

12.  Finance
 Sales and Distribution
 Materials Management
 Production Planning
 Human Resources

13. Part 1
 Engagement & Bid process
 Bid Evaluation
 Implementation approaches
Part 2
 Implementation Methodology Overview
 Key challenges in implementing large and
complex projects
 Matching implementation objectives to
company’s objectives

14.  Services Oriented Architecture and examples
 Cross Applications
 New in HR, FI, etc

15.  1. Driving organization change management using ERP
 2. Role of ERP system in corporate governance
 3. ROI for implementing ERP system
 4. Extending the value of ERP thro SCM, CRM, SRM and
ERM
 5. Globalization and ERP systems
 6. Importance of IT Strategy alignment with Business
strategy