HER User Group Meeting

Cape Town: 26-28 February 1998

 

Last Updated: 10 September 1998

General Information

A very successful meeting of the HER User Group took place in Cape Town, South Africa, from Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 February 1998. The venue for the meeting was the campus of the University of Cape Town, the oldest University in South Africa.

Material Presented at the Meeting

A brief summary of the current state of R/3 implementation was given by several Universities, and those that were presented in PowerPoint are given below.  
 
HERU CMU  Central Michigan University presentation
HERU MAS  Agenda master for all university presentations
HERU UCL  University of Louvain-la-Neuve presentation
HERU MIT  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
HERU NCL  University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
HERU UCT  University of Cape Town
HERU UOL  University of Leeds
HERU UOT  University of Toronto
HERU UVA  Universiteit van Amsterdam
WORKFLOW  Internet, optical archiving and workflow implementation, UCL

A substantial portion of the meeting (see the Agenda below) was taken up with report back on HERUG-requested developments in R/3, or in presentations of R/3 functionality though to be of particular interest to the User Group. You can either download presentations individually using the links from the table below, or you can download a zip file of all these presentations in one archive.
 
P1 GRANT  SAP report back on HERUG-requested developments: 
    • Grant Year functionality and carry-forward rules and procedures 
    • Reporting Issues 
P2 CO FM  Simultaneous usage of FM and CO 
P3 PM  SAP report back on HERUG-requested developments: 
    • Position Management 
P3 PMFM  PM - FM
P3_PMTE PM - Teaching
P4_ASSIG  Multiple Assignments
P5 PRO A 
P5 PRO B 
P5 PRO C 
P5 PRO D 
 SAP Authorizations/Profile Generator
P6 NEWS4  New capabilities likely to be of particular interest to the HERUG
WS GRANT  Grant functionality workshop 24.2.98
   
   
DEV-97 Jürgen’s Report on Developments requested at 1997 meeting
DEV-98 List of 1998 development requests from meeting

Agenda

The Agenda of the meeting is shown below:
 
Date
Time
Topic
     
Wed 25 Feb 18h00 Welcome Cocktail Party: Exhibition Hall A in the UCT Graduate School of Business, at the Waterfront, immediately east of the Breakwater Lodge. Kindly sponsored by SAP Southern Africa.
     
Thu 26 Feb 09h00 – 10h30  Introduction: 

"State of Affairs": Each University to present a brief summary of their implementation plan and current status.
  10h30 – 10h45 Tea/Coffee
  10h45 – 12h30 Accounting: 

SAP to report back on HERUG-requested developments: 

    • Grant Year functionality and Carry-forward rules and procedures. 
    • Reporting Issues. 
  12h30 – 13h45 Lunch (Baxter Theatre Restaurant)
  13h45 – 15h30 Accounting: 

Continuation of SAP report back. Discussion.
  15h30 – 15h45 Tea/Coffee
  15h45 – 17h00 Accounting: 

Presentation and discussion of the SAP concept for the simultaneous usage of FM and CO structures and objects and guidelines for appropriate financial structures for a HER Institution.
     
Fri 27 Feb 09h00 – 10h30 Human Resources: 

SAP to report back on HERUG-requested developments: 

    • Position Management 
    • Multiple Assignments 
  10h30 – 10h45 Tea/Coffee
  10h45 – 12h30 Human Resources: 

Continuation of SAP report back. Discussion
  12h30 – 13h45 Lunch (Baxter Theatre Restaurant)
  13h45 – 14h30 Human Resources: 

Continuation of SAP report back. Discussion
  14h30 – 15h15 SAP Contracts: 

Discussion and suggestions to SAP.
  15h15 – 15h30 Tea/Coffee
  15h30 – 17h00 IQ Campus: 

Presentation on SAP IQ (International Qualifications Systems) and the IQ Campus product that is now under development.
  19h00 HERUG Dinner at Hildebrand Restaurant, Waterfront. Kindly sponsored by SAP Southern Africa.
     
Sat 28 Feb 09h00 – 10h15 Accounting and Purchasing: 

The "roll-out" of this functionality to end-users in University Departments. Discussion of training issues, problems, successes and failures.
  10h15 – 10h30 Tea/Coffee
  10h30 – 12h30 Presentations: 
    • A transport control system (UCT) 
    • Internet, optical archiving and workflow implementation (UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve) 
    • Authorizations made easy (SAP) 
    • Authorization implementation and management (UCT) 
  12h30 – 13h45 Lunch (Baxter Theatre Restaurant)
  13h45 – 15h15 R/3 Release 4.0: 

New capabilities likely to be of particular interest to the HER community.
  15h15 – 15h30 Tea/Coffee
  15h30 – 16h15 HERUG Development Requests: 

Discussion to clarify items currently on list. Addition of new items.
  16h15 – 17h00 HERUG Housekeeping: 
    • Meeting immediately prior to Sapphire USA. 
    • Meeting in Amsterdam in 1999. 
    • Election of Vice-Chair (to succeed Bob van der Werf when he becomes Chair in September 1998). 
     

List of Participants

 
Institution / Organization
Participant(s)
Central Michigan University
  • Jerry Scoby 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Katherine Cochrane 
SAP AG
  • Jürgen Hollberg 
  • Herbert Lederer 
  • Jana Smolawa 
  • Bernhard Stauder 
  • Elvira Wallis 
SAP America
  • David Calacci 
  • Malcolm Woodfield 
SAP Southern Africa
  • Lisa-Jane Baxter 
  • Lynette Shaw 
Université Catholique Louvain
  • Pierre Blauwart 
  • Marc Courtejoie 
  • Luc DeBeusscher 
  • Marie-Christine Decamp 
  • André Ransart 
Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • John Khoeblal 
  • Rob Remmerswaal 
  • Ton van Wijngaard 
University of Cape Town
  • Andy Duncan 
  • Jim Harmer 
  • Jim McNamara 
  • Duncan Martin 
  • Duncan Miller 
  • Prags Naicker 
  • Lisa Seymour 
  • Kath Webb 
  • and many others ..... 
University of Geneva
  • Augustin Razafindraibe 
  • Franco Serena 
University of Leeds
  • Kathy Brownridge 
  • Judith Hardy 
University of Leuven
  • Annemie Depuydt 
  • Barbara de Bruyn 
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Ruth Draper 
  • Michael Thomas 
  • Judith Wallen 
University of Oldenburg
  • Jochen Meiners 
University of Toronto
  • Marlies Burkhard 
  • Jim Laughland 
Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Hans Pijpers 
  • Bob van der Werf 
 

If you have any additional queries regarding this meeting please contact either Andy Duncan or Kath Webb.

Additional Contact Information:

PRISM Project Office
Computer Science Building
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch 7701
SOUTH AFRICA
 
Tel: +27 21 650-2244 / 2489
Fax: +27 21 650-3726