Abstract—Information Systems (IS) education is being transformed from the development of applications towards implementation and configuration of the integrated enterprise-wide system software - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Teaching business processes integration has become an important issue in IS education. To meet the challenge, the author presents a comprehensive approach to teach business processes integration with ERP. The paper emphasizes on teaching business processes integration with ERP as the whole process in the Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Systems courses. SAP ERP is utilized as an ERP software tool for illustration purpose.

Index Terms—Business processes, enterprise resource planning, ERP, IS curriculum, SAP.

Ming Wang is with the Department of Information Systems, California State University, Los Angeles (e-mail: ming.wang@calstatela.edu).

Cite: Ming Wang, "Teaching Business Processes Integration with ERP In Enterprise Architecture/Systems Courses," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 354-357 , 2012.