Long-time MIT staff members Judith Stein and Eileen Nielsen began their
new positions as SAP school coordinators on September 14. Previously, both
women had been administrative officers...
Four school and area coordinators are playing an important role this
summer in helping MIT offices prepare for the next steps in the rollout
of SAP, MIT's new financial system. Toby Levi, administrative officer of
the List Visual Arts Center, worked...
Following a detailed planning effort, the rollout of SAP to departments,
labs, and centers (DLCs) has begun, and financial staff in your areas are
being trained for more extensive use of the software....
All members of the MIT community are invited to join the MIT SAP User Group,
in which SAP users can discuss the features and use of the software and
the new Institute business processes...
A series of "demo" training sessions for creating SAP electronic journal
vouchers will be held this month. All departmental staff members who are
responsible for creating journal vouchers in the classic MIT accounting
system need to be trained on this...
The Management Reporting Project has announced the plan for completing
the rollout of SAP to the MIT community. The rollout will be broken up
into five phases, or project "milestones."
A final detailed project plan for the remainder of the rollout of SAP (MIT's
new accounting system) to departments, labs and centers is being developed
by a planning team formed in December 1997 at the request of Vice Presidents
William Dickson and James Bruce...
The following questions and answers are intended to update the MIT community
on the latest developments regarding the implementation of SAP, the Institute's
new financial software....
After months of preparation, Physical Plant successfully moved its inventory
system into SAP, the Institute's new accounting system. Physical Plant's
old inventory system was shut down on June 26...
The Sloan School of Management made the leap to SAP on July 8 when
they began as a pilot site for MIT's new financial systems functionality
for departments, laboratories and centers...
Senior Vice President William R. Dickson announced on May 28 that the rollout
of the new SAP financial system to the departments, labs and centers will
begin on August 1, 1997. "In response to...
The Management Reporting training team will support the Rollout98 plan
by offering training on all SAP features and capabilities as they are made
available to the MIT community....
The Management Reporting Project and Information Systems have released
a Web-based tool (SAPweb) for accessing SAP purchase order information.
SAPweb was developed in response to the community's desire for lookup capabilities...
The rollout of the new SAP financial system to the departments, labs and
centers will begin on August 1, Senior Vice President William R. Dickson
has announced....
Learning to navigate the SAP system is the first step toward working in
it. To help meet this basic SAP training need, the Management Reporting
Project has included a Computer- Based Training (CBT) program...
In anticipation of the rollout of SAP to the departments, labs and centers,
many of you may be wondering if there is anything you can do now to prepare
for training. Here is a short list put together by Cindy Vallino...
Presentations about the planned training methods for Release 2 of SAP will
be held at the Professional Learning Center (Building W89) on Wednesday,
Feb. 26...
To give people a feel for what it will be like to use the new SAP financial
system, a presentation will be held on Thursday, Jan. 30 from noon-1pm
in Rm 10-250...
Attendees at last week's faculty meeting unanimously approved a new master's
degree program in geosystems and heard updates about federal research funding
and on SAP, MIT's new financial system...
...In early September, the Controller's Accounting Office began recording
the Institute's financial information using the new SAP R/3 System. Its
implementation was a joint effort...
On September 3 the Management Reporting (MR) Project team reached its first
milestone by making SAP R/3 the system of record in the central administrative
offices at MIT. "This represents a tremendous accomplishment...
On Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 8am, SAP R/3 became the MIT financial system of
record. Members of the Management Reporting and Financial Operations Project
team, along with...
Today, August 28, at 5pm, the current EREQ and VAPS systems (Accounts Payable
and Purchasing) will be shut down for conversion to SAP, MIT's new financial
system. According to a memo to all campus employees from Senior Vice President
William R. Dickson, it is...
On June 17, 1996, Senior Vice President Bill Dickson kicked-off a Management
Reporting/Financial Operations (MR/FO) Workshop for more than fifty members
of five newly established MR/FO Implementation teams...
In early 1995 various members of the MIT community were called upon to
join the Management Reporting and Financial Operations (MR/FO) Project.
These individuals were carefully selected for the collaborative effort
of implementing SAP R/3...
The release of the new SAP computer system into MIT's central financial
offices will be delayed from July 1 to September 1, according to Senior
Vice President William R. Dickson....
For MIT's new financial system to be successful, it must provide a consistent
mechanism for departments, laboratories, and centers to record current
and future salary commitments by cost collectors (currently MIT operating,
fund, and research accounts). As this capability...
Over the last 18 months, MIT has worked with SAP AG, a German company that
specializes in integrated business solutions for financial and logistic
applications, to implement a new financial system at MIT. According to
Vice President
In its four years of existence, EREQ has processed requisitions more quickly
than the paper-only system it replaced. But Barry Roberts and Steve Kellogg
of the Buy/Pay Reengineering Team warn users about an upcoming transitional
period after EREQ and before SAP....
John Hynes has taken his role as head of Department Outreach for the MR/FO
Project literally. He and his colleagues have reached out to MIT's schools,
departments, labs, and centers to gather information about their various
business...
...As Barry Roberts and Steve Kellogg describe how much easier it will
be to complete a routine requisition through SAP, the two members of the
Buy/Pay Reengineering Team are clear on one additional point: the changes
they are working on are typical of MIT's entire business process redesign.
...
MIT is renovating 301 Vassar Street (W89) to house the MIT Professional
Learning Center. The Learning Center, formerly a commercial building, will
be a multipurpose training facility for the MIT community. According to
Margaret Ann Gray...
Like two climbers surveying the mountain that lies before them, Larry Connelly
and Shyam Jajodia have no illusions about the tasks ahead. Connelly, Assistant
Comptroller...
As the MR/FO Project moves toward Release 1, a major component of the effort
is computer skills training. The commitment to training comes from the
highest levels of the organization. "As MIT improves the way we do business
through process redesign,
As MIT passes through a period of change aimed at combining its many resources,
a partnership with global software giant SAP is part of the solution. This
newsletter will communicate the evolution of this exciting process....
Documentation Associates (DA) has joined the Management Reporting and Financial
Operations reengineering team to help prepare MIT to use the new software
that will streamline the way we do business...
The Reengineering Management Reporting Team is engaged in a two-part effort
to reengineer MIT's financial systems and expects to have a pilot redesign
in place later this fiscal year. Starting last August...
