All articles listed are from Tech Talk unless otherwise noted.         ..1999 Executive VP John Curry outlines changes in MIT's administration (3/31/99) ...Mr. Curry described the establishment of a new organization--Financial Systems Services (FSS). The overall goal of FSS will be to coordinate the development, delivery and maintenance of effective financial systems for the Institute... SAP News (1/27/99) A handy new "SAP Quick Reference" guide was mailed earlier this month to MIT staff members who took SAP training classes at the Building W89 Learning Center. The guide is a series of eight tabbed, spiral bound reference cards. Top of page .. ..1998 Two SAP school coordinators discuss new challenges (10/7/98) 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... SAP requisition training starts soon (8/26/98) On Wednesday, Sept. 2, the Institute will begin a new phase of the SAP rollout focused primarily on purchasing activity. Over the next four months... Coordinators help areas prepare for SAP rollout (7/15/98) 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... SAP Rollout Continues (Faculty Newsletter, March/April 1998) 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... SAP user group to discuss new features (4/15/98) 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... SAP journal voucher training announced (4/15/98) 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... Five project milestones for completing SAP rollout announced (4/8/98) 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." Team planning SAP rollout completion (2/11/98) 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... Top of page .. ..1997 SAP group meets (11/12/97) The next meeting of the SAP User Group will be on Thursday, Nov. 20 from 2-3:30pm in Rm 56-114. All members of the MIT community are invited. Some questions and answers on continuing SAP transition (9/24/97) 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... Physical Plant inventory system makes transition to SAP (8/27/97) 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... Sloan leads the way as SAP accounting system pilot site (7/16/97) 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... SAP rollout to begin in August (6/4/97) 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... Web-based SAP tool readied (6/4/97) The Management Reporting Project has announced that a Web-based tool (SAPweb) will be available in early June... SAP Release 2 presentations... (2/12/97) 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... Reengineering update (1/29/97) The reengineering teams formerly located in Building 16 have moved to the fourth floor of Building N52, where the MIT Museum is located... SAP demonstration on tap (1/15/97) 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... Open house for Learning Center... (1/8/97) MIT's Professional Learning Center will hold an open house on Monday, Jan. 13 from noon-2pm to introduce the Institute community... Top of page .. ..1996 Vest gives information... (12/18/96) President Charles M. Vest fielded questions on the status of reengineering at MIT, the SAP system and... How SAP works (12/11/96) MIT selected the SAP financial software partly because SAP is an integrated system. This means that once... Faculty gets updates on SAP... (12/4/96) 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... Strehle gives details on SAP... (12/4/96) ...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... SAP Takes Flight (Faculty Newsletter, September 1996 ) Writing about MIT’s implementation of SAP at this point is a little like submitting a trip report before even arriving at the destination... SAP now in place; procedures clarified (9/11/96) 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... Conversion to SAP accounting system begins -- Limit on DAPOs raised to $2,500 (8/28/96) 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... SAP Release 1 rollout is delayed (6/12/96) 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... New facility to open for training (4/10/96) 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... SAP End-User Training Team Gearing Up (2/14/96) 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... Top of page .. ..1995 Management Reporting and Financial Operations Team makes sense of "SAP" (12/13/95 Tech Talk supplement) The original work of the Management Reporting Team focused on simplifying the process of providing information to management at all levels of MIT... Financial systems redesign progresses (7/19/95) 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... Top of page Contact SAP for MIT