DEPLOYMENT OF BUSINESS TO BUSINESS SCENARIOS IN ERP EDUCATION: EVALUATION AND EXPERIENCES FROM AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

Collaboration between Universities has increased in an attempt to help curriculum stay abreast with the business of the 21 st century. Many businesses have extended to an e-business world that is business to business process oriented, web-centric, and ERP driven. Developing effective collaborative methods that simulate this new process oriented e-business world remains a challenge. This paper presents a description of the collaboration and the preliminary evaluation results, in the form of students’ feedback, of an international collaboration between two universities that address these issues of new e-centric business practices. The collaboration deploys a case scenario methodology that utilizes SAP R/3 and the web to link geographically dispersed students. A description of the collaborative method and a report on the lessons learned in deploying this type of collaboration is provided.