30th April: Review results

Review results

I am trying my best to complete the answer sheet evaluation before 3pm, tomorrow, 30th April. I will publish the results on this blog by that time and if you have any questions or would like to see your answer sheets then meet me at my office in ERPLab, Production Engg dept between 3pm and 5pm. Your Moodle test results you can view online on Moodle.

Your EndSem Exam (for total marks 60) results are available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cGSz8Wq7OcUl9uNFlzSmh4UEk/view?usp=sharing

Your internal assessment for Lab and Tests is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cGSz8Wq7OcQ0wzSk1aSDBIcms/view?usp=sharing

With this we have completely finished our course. I hope you have learned something. Please feel free to send me your suggestions/ comments, so that I could help improve for the future batches.

Wish you all the best in your careers and look forward to work with you some time as professional engineers! I will be on my way back to Canada tomorrow, but feel free to contact me by email.
Bye, bye!!

28th April: Final End Semester Exam

Final End Semester Exam

Congratulations for completing the course. 

The final exam will be on Tuesday, 28th April 2015, from 2pm to 4pm, at Cognizant Lab

Please arrive some time early to ensure that your PC is working proprely with Moodle access.

The exam will have 2 parts. A written paper for 30 marks which will have descriptive questions to be answered on paper answer books. Another Moodle online test with MCQs will be for 30 marks. Both parts of the exam will be completed in the 2 hour time slot.

The detailed topics covered have been already shared with you in my previous blog posts. Please read through the SAP 101 PDF material and Powerpoint presentations used in the classroom. You will find links to all these in my previous blog posts.

At a very high level the topics to be covered in the exam are given below:

ERP definition, characteristics, evolution, architecture

ERP implementation, ASAP methodology, phases, work packages

Business Processes: Material mgt, Sales, Production, Logistics, Financial, HR

Wish you all the best!!

Some of you have mentioned that you could not download some of the presentations from the previous blog posts. For your convinince, I am sending the link for the entire shared folder where all materials are available for your use.

Here is the link :  https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-cGSz8Wq7OcOHozQWY5LUFKeEE&usp=sharing

25 April: Lab and Tests evaluation of 40 marks

Congratulations for completing all Lab and tests for the semester.
The marks for both Tests and Lab are available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cGSz8Wq7OcaG1ncEVfelE5RkE/view?usp=sharing

Most of you done well in Lab. I hope you all now have a feel of the type of software an ERP system is.

For Moodle test, some of you had problems of connectivity etc. Some others had missed their tests because of some tours, other conflicting exams etc. If you are one of those, then please meet me in my office on Monday, 27th, with relevant HoD authorization etc. and I will do the required corrections.

22nd April 2015: No class today, prepare for lab assignment tomorrow

Lab Assignment Tomorrow

We will not have classroom session today at 4pm.

Please prepare for the Lab assignment to be given tomorrow.
Since we do not have enough PCs in Cognizant Lab with SAP GUI installed on 95 machines, we will have to conduct the lab assignments in 2 batches.

First batch will be from 5pm to 6pm
For students of Civil (10), CS&IT (24) and Electrical (14) : total 48 students

Second batch will be from 6pm to 7pm
For students of E&TC (9), I&C (9), Mechanical (9) and Metallergy (18) : Total students 45

The assignment is to be completed by groups of 2 students. Please identify who is going to be your partner for this Lab assignment well in advance.
Please come to the Cognizanrt Lab about halh an hour early to ensure that your Pcs are in order for the assignment.
You can bring notes or instructions that you may have for the lab assignment but you will not be allowed to consult anyone other than your partner during the assignment.
This assignment carries 10 marks.

15th April : Lab practice

On 15th April, Wednesday, there will NOT be classroom session at 4pm.

From 5 to 7 pm, all are requested to complete exercises for Sales cycle in Cognizant Lab.

10 April 2015 Lab 4 and Test schedule

Lab 4 and Test schedule

Yesterday, majority of you have finished the exercise upto "Creation of Sales Orders". You need to be careful in every step. If you have made any mistakes in the initial steps then you will get difficulty in doing following steps. Therefore, today you may find issues in completing following steps. In the Lab we will review various such issues faced by students and this will also be a very good learning for all students.

We are coming to end of this semester. 

We will have T2 on 16th April in Cognizant Lab after 5pm. (Sorry, I can not arrange this on 17th as you had suggested. I am required to go for another urgent engagement) The topics to be covered will include Procurement Processes, Financial Processes, Sales and Distribution Processes and Production processes. It will be online Moodle test for 10 minutes like last time.

The Lab final test assignment will on 23rd April. You will be given an assignment to complete in groups of 2 students. Please decide who will be your partner for the Lab test. 

The final endsem exam is scheduled on 28th April between 2pm and 5pm. Final exam will have MCQs as well as descriptive questions and will be conducted using Moodle if possible. If Moodle is not available, then please be prepared to write a written answer paper.

Until 23rd, please spend all your available time to practice Lab exercises during our scheduled class/lab sessions. From 22nd, I will take classes for revision and exam preparation.

For Lab practice or any issues, you can also come to ERPLab in Prodn engg dept, but more than 6 or 7 students can not be accommodated in ERPLab at any one time. Post Graduate students have offered to help you, which will be very useful to you.

9 April 2015: Lab 4

Lab 4

Today we will meet in Cognizant Lab to continue Lab 4 Sales Process from 5pm to 7pm.

There will be no class in Room 16 at 4pm.

Please make sure that you have uploaded the MCQ questions assigned to you latest by 11th April 2015. For a quick recap, I am giving below the links for submitting these mcqs.

Financial Processes
Assignment of topics:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cGSz8Wq7OcZEdYVDZsQmxpaEU/view?usp=sharing
Submission of questions: http://goo.gl/forms/NQZcEMQty0

Sales Process:
The topics assigned to you are available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cGSz8Wq7OcQ0JNODJFQnJNems/view?usp=sharing
Please submit your questions at http://goo.gl/forms/SgtE4yo1Kf .

Procurement Process
Submit questions at http://goo.gl/forms/B7AOPzJqh7.

8 April 2015: Financial Processes Overview continued

Financial Processes Overview continued

Today between 4pm and 5:30pm, we will complete the discussion of Financial processes, at Room no. 16, Production Engineering dept.

In our subsequent class room sessions in the following weeks, we will review all topics from exam perspective. 

For the Lab, you are requested to complete the Lab 4, Basic Sales process. The Lab exam will be conducted based on the SAP transactions that you have practiced in the previous Lab sessions. The Lab exam will be performed in groups of two students. Please choose your partner for Lab exam, based on who do you feel comfortable to work together. Please practice together with your partner the execution of SAP transactions. Please make sure, that you are able to execute the following SAP transactions to prepare for the exam.

1. Create/Change/Display Customer master
2. Create/Change Display Material master
3. Check Stock status of materials
4. Receipt/ Add initial stock to material
5. Create Sales order
6. Create Delivery Note for Sales Order
7. Pick material on delivery note
8. Post Goods Issue for sales
9. Billing Due list and collective bill
10. Post receipt for customer payment

For the Lab exam, your group of 2 students will be required to execute an assignment. Consultations with any other group is not allowed.