This module focuses on introducing strategies, approaches and technologies of enterprise systems, e.g. ERP systems, and business information management integrating with business processes within and across organisational boundaries.
The module provides students with knowledge of enterprise systems’ architectures and technologies in general, and roles and functions of enterprise systems and business information management for digital business and supply chain management in particular. The module will introduce the development history, functional characteristics and real cases of enterprise information systems in a digital business and supply chain environments, e.g. applications based on SAP, Oracle, etc.
The module helps students to understand how enterprise systems and business information management functions are mapped with supply chain management functions and into digital business networks. Promising technologies such as AI for digital business enterprise systems which would lead to business innovation will be particularly discussed. Through this module, students will learn technologies for business process integration, automation, and optimisation. Practical tools used in enterprises, e.g. SAP, will be demonstrated.