Miski-Oglu A.G., Shlapak N.S.

Pryazovskyi State Technical University

Strategic use of Information technologies

in managers’ training

Nowadays the Information technologies (IT) and computer technologies as an integral part of IT, are commonly used in solution of various tasks: rating of an external and internal environment, marketing researches, business plan development, product quality assurance, enterprise reorganization.

One of the topical issues of our time is the preparation and training of qualified experts for them to operate productively in an advanced area of contemporary technologies. In this regard, the role of information technologies in educational process increases significantly, which entails the prevalence of standard and specialized software for personal PC. Currently the Microsoft Office software package is widely used. It includes “Word” text editor,

“Excel” worksheets, “Access” database and project presentation design program called “Power Point”.

One can not but mention a huge role of Internet global network as a universal multifunctional source of knowledge as well as the global information guide.

Numerous

researches show the following properties of information technologies (Fig. 1). They are useful for managers due to the following features:

- help to bridge the gap between economics and mathematics;

- carry the advanced methods that provide an effective solution of economic problems;

- conform current economical procedures

to International requirements;

- connect to unified information space - economic and educational;

- allow managers to make a rational decision.

mathematics

Fig.1 – Integration of information technologies

Particular role in enterprise management is given to modern systems of enterprise asset management. The most famous among them are Oracle Applications and SAP R/3.

According to our opinion, the Enterprise Resource Planning is the management in IT language.

As we know, management is the process of planning, organization, motivation and control, necessary for the main organizational purposes to be planed and achieved [1].

As a corroboration of above-mentioned, there is a table that shows basic interrelation between management functions [1, 2] and the main SAP R/3 modules [3, 4]  (Table 1).

Table 1 – Management functions and SAP R/3 modules

Name of the function	Name of the module
Planning	PP, PD
Organization	MM, LO, SD, QM
Motivation	PA
Control	FI, CO, EC

The main function of the given modules:

PP (Production planning module)

- sales aggregation and production planning, long-term planning, production program

drafting, material requirement planning, productive capacity requirement planning, commercial manufacturing contracts, specification drafting, strip maps and assembly charts, product costing;

PD (Personnel planning and Development module)

- responsible for Applicant Management strategy, HR management, Personnel development;

ММ (Material Management module)

- purchasing, maintenance, storekeeping and inventorying, warehouse management, provider certification;

LO (General Logistics module)

- procurement, production, inventory management, selling, maintenance, quality control;

SD (Sales & Distribution module)

- products’ marketing, shipping and transportation, invoicing;

QM (Quality management module)

- quality management basic operations in  accordance with standard ISO 9000;

PA (Personnel Administration module)

- records management, working hours accounting, travel expenses, salary calculation;

FI (Financial Accounting module)

- the General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, fixed assets accounting, closing entries operations, the Finance Information System;

СО (Controlling module)

- additional charges accounting, product costing, profitability analysis;

ЕС (Enterprise controlling module)

- contains management information system  and capital Investment Management. 

The above-given SAP R/3 modules functioning system indicates that the modules are able not only to fulfil the management basic functions, but also provide a link between these functions.

Foregoing information demonstrates the full range of advantages from using SAP R/3 as a study application for future managers. For this purpose mini SAP software can be used in educational process. The given program installation and operation system requirements allow to apply all technological means available in Higher Education Institutions.

There is a list of

basic system requirements:

- Operating system Windows XP Professional;

- File system NTFS;

- Browser Internet Explorer or Firefox;

- Random-access memory

> 1 Gb;

- Processor Intel Pentium III with CPU frequency > 1.1 GHz;

- High resolution monitor.

List of literature:

1. Michael H. Mescon, Michael Albert, Franklin Khedouri, Management. – New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

2. Shlapak N.S., Serkutan Т.V. Management: tutorial. Mariupol: PSTU, 2009. – 191 p.

3. Michael Rebstock, Knut Hildebrand, SAP R/3 fur Manager. – Bonn: ITP, 1998.

4. Miski-Oglu А.G., Shlapak N.S. Optimization of the industrial enterprises // IV International scientific conference «Achievement of higher education - 2008». – Sophia, «Byal GRAD-BG» OOD, 2008. – p.47-48.