SAP Higher Education and Research User Group

Last Updated: March 25, 2009

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Introduction

Membership of the SAP Higher Education and Research User Group (sometimes abbreviated as the “HER User Group” or “HERUG”) is open to all degree-granting Higher Education and Research Institutions who are SAP customers with signed contracts for the productive use of one or more R/2 or R/3 software modules. Those Higher Education Institutions that are part of the SAP Tertiary Education Program in which R/3 is made available for inclusion in the curriculum for one or more academic modules or courses are NOT eligible for membership unless their institution also happens to be an SAP customer.

Attendance at meetings of the HER User Group is open to all members and to HER Institutions that are “qualified SAP prospects.” The right to vote at such meetings is restricted to member institutions.

Mission and Goals

The overall mission of the HER User Group is to foster the development and more effective delivery of SAP functionality to the higher education and research community.

The HER User Group will act as a liaison between SAP and HER Member Institutions and between the Instititutions themselves. It will work with SAP AG and its national subsidiaries in a collaborative manner so as to be:

The route via which HER Institutions can communicate their mutual requirements and concerns to SAP
A forum in which HER Institutions can agree on specifications for software development/enhancement requests to be submitted to SAP
A grouping of resources for development of functionality that SAP has indicated that it will not develop itself
A knowledge base forum where HER Institutions faced with similar problems can learn from each other and by sharing the Group's knowledge of implementation and functionality issues that are particular to the HER sector
A forum to which SAP will communicate initiatives into the HER community

Mail List Information

Members of the HER User Group can communicate with each other by sending email to the available HER User Group lists.

The following lists are available:

	List	Recipients
	her	All member institutions
	her-af	Member institutions within Africa
	her-an	Member institutions within Australia and New Zealand
	her-as	Member institutions within Asia
	her-eu	Member institutions within Europe
	her-na	Member institutions within North America
	her-sa	Member institutions within South America
	her-sap	SAP Support for HER member institutions

These mail lists, and their related archives are limited to list member only access. Messages sent by non-members will be held for the list adminstrator to reveiw and determine if the message should be accepted for posting to the list(s). All HERUG mail list recipients must be associated with a HERUG member institution.
To request your individual email address be added to, or removed from, the HER mail list, send mail to the HERUG List Administrator.

If you have material that would benefit HER User Group members, any you would like it included in this web site, send email to the HERUG Webmaster. Your e-mail request should include your name, the name of your institution, and a brief description or summary of the information you want added.

Shared Documentation

The following documents are available to HERUG members by sending email to :

Format	By	Subject
Acrobat PDF		PCR Questions: summary of questions and answers from SAP on personnel change requests
Acrobat PDF		Higher Education Issues
Acrobat PDF	Joe Thompson	Using the FM Derivation tool to bypass the derivation rules for reversals

Become a HERUG Member

Any degree-granting Higher Education and Research Institution which is a SAP customer with signed contract(s) for the productive use of one or more R/2 or R/3 software modules can become a member. Please take the following steps to join our User Group:

Complete the membership form which, will be submitted to the current HERUG Chairperson for review. Once it is confirmed that your institution is a licensed SAP customer, your institution will be added to the HERUG web site.

Please note that there are currently no charges or dues associated with membership of this User Group. As a consequence of this it has been agreed that any institution hosting a HERUG meeting is entitled to charge a modest registration fee that is intended to recover only the actual costs incurred.

Member Institutions

The table below reflects those HER institutions which have licensed R/3 and the related contact person.

Country	HER Institution	Contact
Australia	La Trobe University	Pam Harrison
	Monash University	Phil Wheatland
	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology	John Haynes
Belgium	Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons	Alain Sayez
	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven AIV	Annemie Depuydt
	Universiteit Gent	Danny Schellemans
	Université Catholique Louvain-la-Neuve	Luc De Beusscher
	University of Liège	Annick Lambert
Canada	University of Toronto
Chile	Instituto Profesional DuocUC
China	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Egypt	American University in Cairo
England	British Council
	City University of London
	Leeds University
	University of Leicester
	University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
	University of Northumbria
	University of Salford
	University of Sheffield
	Warwick University
Germany	Alfred Wegener Institute - Foundation for Polar and Marine Research	Dieter Pleyn
	Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron - DESY	Konrad Grobe
	Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum	Gabriele Scholz
	Fachhochschule Darmstadt	Joerg Steinbach
	Fachhochschule Osnabrück, University of Applied Sciences	Walter Wobker
	Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.	Juliane Andersohn
	GSI, Gessellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung	Tilmann Kirchhoff
	Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin
	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Wolf-Eckhard Wormser
	Universitaet des Saarlandes	Marion Geib
	Universität Oldenburg	Jochen Meiners
	Universität Würzburg	Gunther Schuller
	University Clinic Benjamin Franklin, Free University of Berlin	Dr. Gabriele Faulkner
	University of Kassel	Sybille Pfromm
India	Indian School of Business
Israel	Academic College of Tel-Aviv Jaffo	Sarit Albo
	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
	University of Haifa	Uri X Ehrlich
Italy	Universita' degli Studi di Trento	Tullio Nicolussi
Korea	Yonsei University	Kee Young Kim
Malaysia	Universiti Teknologi Petronas	Azlan Zahuri
Mexico	Universidad Tec Milenio A.C.
Netherlands	Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
	University of Maastricht
	Universiteit van Amsterdam
	Universiteit van Tilburg
	University of Leiden
	University of Utrecht
	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Peru	ESAN Graduate School of Business Administration
Singapore	National University of Singapore
South Africa	University of Cape Town
Switzerland	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
	Université de Lausanne
	Universität Basel
	University of Fribourg
	University of Geneva
	University of Neuchâtel
	University of Zurich
United States of America	Baylor College of Medicine
	Central Michigan University
	Duke University
	Los Angeles Community College District
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Northern Kentucky University
	Purdue University
	State System of Higher Education (Pennsylvania)
	Texas State University-San Marcos
	University of Arkansas for Medical Science
	University of Cincinnati
	University of Kentucky
	University of Missisippi
	University of Nebraska
University of Tennessee
Uruguay	Universidad de Montevideo
Venezuela	Universidad Metropolitana

Regional Higher Education and Research User Groups (HERUG)
North America

Committee

The officers of the HER User Group consist of a Chairperson, a Deputy Chairperson, and an additional three members of the Executive Committee(one of which is the immediate past Chairperson and the other two are elected). The Chairperson's term of office is approximately one year and lasts from the main HER User Group meeting to the next one. The main meeting of the HER User Group each year elects a new Deputy Chairperson to take office after the meeting and to become the Chairperson a year later. The main meeting of the HER User Group also elects additional members of the Executive Committee who take up office immediately. The Executive Committee is augmented by one or more liaison persons as nominated by SAP AG.

The current Executive Committee is:

Position	Name	Institution
Chairpersons		Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chairpersons		University of Tennessee
Vice Chairpersons		University of Haifa
Vice Chairpersons		Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Past Chairperson		Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Members		University of Cape Town
Members		University of Mississippi
SAP Liaison		Public Sector IBU, SAP AG

Former HER User Group chairs are listed below:

Year in Office	Chair	Institution
2005-2006	Uri X. Ehrlich	University of Haifa
2005-2006	Adam Shwartz	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2004-2005	Jim Morgan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004-2005	Neal Wormsley	University of Tennessee
2003-2004	Annemie Depuydt	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2002-2003	Buster Hale	University of Mississippi
2001-2002	Philip Wheatland	Monash University
2000-2001	John Goddard	University of Newcastle
1999-2000	Graham Kemp	University of Toronto
1998-1999	Bob van der Werf	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
1997-1998	Andrew Duncan	University of Cape Town
1996-1997	Katherine Cochrane	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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