| Normally textbooks are fairly dull and boring. Some | | | | case you missed something. |
| even are in the realm of torturous to read even if | | | | The screenshots of SAP are also incredibly useful for |
| you enjoy reading. However, Concepts in Enterprise | | | | those who have never seen SAP before. They take |
| Resource Planning Third Edition by Ellen Monk and | | | | screenshots of the GUI itself rather than digging into |
| Bret Wagner really change the concept of a boring | | | | the details of SAP's code. This is very good for the |
| old textbook. | | | | introductory ERP college class. |
| What is really great about this textbook is that it is | | | | The questions at the end of the chapter are |
| short and to the point. Typically textbooks, especially | | | | particularly useful for studying to an exam. They are |
| in the IT field, are known for dragging on for | | | | not too difficult like some professors like to put on |
| thousands of pages. This textbook only has 254 | | | | their exam, but generally if you can do the problems |
| pages making it a reasonable read for a class. The | | | | then you understand the concept from the chapter. |
| content is still rather intense, but it is put in short | | | | It was nice to see that they have some questions to |
| enough terms that you are not going to sit there for | | | | challenge you before an exam because this is a trend |
| 50 or 100 hours trying to read this textbook. This is a | | | | that college textbooks get away from. |
| nice change from the norm. | | | | Although this is not something that most people |
| The textbook itself is a fairly easy read. There are | | | | would read for fun, if you are taking a class on ERP |
| no incredibly difficult linguistic tactics. You might find | | | | then it is not a bad read. Just hope that you are |
| that there is some terminology that is fairly technical, | | | | lucky enough to be in a class that assigns Concepts |
| but the authors do a decent job of introducing these | | | | in Enterprise Resource Planning Third Edition by Ellen |
| concepts. In addition, there is a list of key terms at | | | | Monk and Bret Wagner. |
| the end of each chapter that you can go look up in | | | | |