How Industry Participates in Enterprise Resource Planning Education

During the last two decades many businesses around the world have adopted Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Consequently the growth in the number of ERP implementations has had an enormous impact on the demand for ERP skills. This is one of the main reasons that many universities have adopted ERP in their curriculum. This paper describes a joint effort by industry and the HU at designing an ERP curriculum that bridges the gap between skills taught by academia and those valued by industry.