Study on the Teaching System of ERP Sand Table Simulation
Abstract
The aim of the study is to improve the practical ability of students in management major. Nowadays, the teaching ways of management course are limited into theoretical teaching. However, such teaching ways cannot meet the practical demand of the students in management major since the major demands students should be practical and theoretical. How to improve the practical ability of students in management major has been an emergent problem need to be solved for universities. First, the brief introduction and characteristics of the teaching system of ERP sand table simulation was made. Then the design of the teaching system of ERP sand table simulation was put forward, which included the design of teaching organization, the design of teaching contents and the design of teaching methods. Through the new teaching method, students can improve their practical capability since they can experience the practice of firm’s operation.
Keywords: ERP, sand table simulation, teaching system,introduction
The current class teaching method of management has emerged many problems since it is very difficult for it to improve the practical capability of students in management major. Since the practical capability of students in management major has been more and more important in current days. How to improve the practical capability of the students in management major has become an important and emergent issue waiting for theory and business circles (Chan-Hsing et al., 2005). The teaching system of ERP sand table simulation has been very popular in the teaching of universities in China. Nowadays, there are more than 400 universities are using the teaching system of ERP sand table simulation to teach the students in management major. However, the effect of existing teaching system of ERP sand table simulation is not satisfying because of the design of it all not good. How to design a suitable teaching system of ERP sand table simulation has become an urgent thing for many universities and firms.
The teaching system of ERP Sand Table Simulation is the boutique training course of UFIDA, which applies the teaching method of sand table situation that popular in Harvard University and takes the relevant theories and teaching methods of Management Group Company and similar kinds of firms as lessons. The teaching system of ERP Sand Table Simulation takes manufacturing firms as background, which let each student to place themselves into business practices. Each student stand for their own identities, which refers to financial, logistics, manufacturing and marketing roles, to let them experience the fierce of business competition. In the sand table, the cash flow, product inventory, production facilities, human resources and other business indicators are clear, which appear as dramatic props and be accompanied with operation rules. In practical sand table simulation, all the students were divided into several groups. Each group includes 5 or 6 persons and each group stands for one virtual firm. The members of each group act as one important position in the firm. All the groups compete with each other under the rules to get development (Bing et al., 1996). The teaching system of ERP sand table simulation can help students know the common process of business operation through games competition.
The first characteristics of the teaching system of ERP sand table simulation is comprehensiveness. The teaching system of ERP sand table simulation refers to many aspects, such as the strategy, product research, equipment investment and upgrading, the plan of manufacturing capability, the plan of material demand, the plan of financial demand, market and sales, the analysis of financial indicators, team communication and construction and so on. It also integrates the role play, case analysis and expert diagnosing, which let students experience the whole process of firms’ operation through analyzing market, making strategies, organizing production, financial settlement and so on Holland and Light (1999). This can help students recognize the limitation of firm’s resources, thereby understand the management theory of ERP, comprehend scientific management principles and improve management capability.
Corresponding Author: He Xiaolan, Business School of Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou 310015, China 2544
The second characteristic of the teaching system of ERP sand table simulation is practicalness. The teaching system of ERP sand table simulation aims to let students study from participation. The studying process of students closes to the operational situation of firms, which can let students experience the delicacy and cruel of the market competition and undertake the operation and responsibility. During the studying process, students will come across various kinds of typical problems in firm’s operation. This demands students to find market opportunities analyze laws and make strategies to operate general management. In the experience of the success and failure of various kinds of decisions, students can study management knowledge, seize management skills and improve their management quality.
The third characteristic is intuitiveness. The teaching system of ERP sand table simulation can open the complex appearance of operation principle and explore the operation nature directly. It also can exhibit enterprise structure and management in the sand table and let students experience and learn the complex and abstract management theory of ERP management directly (Mandal and Gunasekaran, 2002). The intact and lively visual feeling will effectively activate the learning interest of students and strengthen their learning capability. Students will understand more deeply and memorize better of the contents when the course ends.
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