Business applications provider Softworx, an EOH company, has sponsored the software and services for the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Laboratory at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).
Softworx has donated and installed software valued at about R2 million, including 45 licences for BPCS software, an Infor ERP product, to be used in practical sessions by students of the Department of Quality and Operations Management, in the Faculty of Management at the university.
“We are pleased to be part of this exciting initiative to help educate the future users of ERP in the workplace and ensure the growth of ERP skills in the South African market,” says Jane Thomson, MD of Softworx.
The ERP Laboratory can accommodate approximately 50 students per session. By year-end, the university will have trained 400 students in the ERP lab based at its Bunting Road campus. By the end of 2011, this number should increase to about 500 students.
“Within the study of operations management, the ERP concept assists enterprise wide with shipment, customer service, accounts and human resources management. ERP co-ordinates the whole business in a firm from the supplier evaluation process to customer invoicing,” says Professor John F Agwa-Ejon, Head and Chair of the Department of Quality and Operations Management at the UJ Faculty of Management.
“We hope to use the ERP Laboratory to expose more students to ERP software. So far, students from the University of Johannesburg are very interested in the ERP programme as it improves their chances of employment,” Agwa-Ejon adds.
Initially, Softworx experts are running the practical sessions, but with the UJ lecturers present at the practical sessions, in order for knowledge transfer to take place. The end goal is that UJ staff will run the practical sessions on their own.
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