The major purpose of this paper is to investigation the issues of teaching ERP systems in a supply chain management course. The secondary purpose of the paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of students’ perception of learning ERP systems in a supply chain management course. INTRODUCTION Supply chain management (SCM) refers to an information system that integrates all the business processes throughout the supply chain from suppliers to customers. (Turban, Rainer, & Potter, 2003). Supply chain management can be dived into two parts: Supply chain planning systems and supply chain execution systems. Supply chain executive systems are quite similar to the enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems because they both focus on the operational level. The basic philosophy of ERP is to incorporate order entry, purchasing, production, and direct interfaces with customers and suppliers such as customer relationship management (CRM) and business information warehouse (BW). An important feature of an ERP system is its global supply chain network. A company may use a full integrated ERP system to receive an electronic order from a customer in Italy, issue the necessary purchase orders for parts to suppliers in Mexico, plan for assembly, and notify shippers on both ends of the transactions. ERP in general provides a broad range of general benefits such as efficiency, increased quality, improved customer relationship, and enhanced vendor relations. (Lee & Chen, 2005) Supply chain management is one of the rising fields in the business schools today. In term of software, ERP and SCM have many similar modules. Many people think that ERP is an important subject for the SCM course since it affects the concept of supply chain management (Becerra-Fernandez, et al., 2000). ERP evolved from the Material Requirements Planning II (MRP II) system. For more than two decades MRP II was the major software for production planning and control in the industry. MRP II, however, is obsolete with Internet, new global competition, multi-plant international sites, and new supply-chain management (Lee & Chen, 2005). Many universities today offer a course or a program in supply chain management and ERP courses. Therefore, the major purpose of this paper is to study the issues of teaching ERP systems in a supply chain management course. The secondary purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of the ERP modules for teaching supply chain management courses. This is an important area of study because the outcome of this research could lead to the development of a teaching model for other business courses such as Marketing Information Systems and Production/Operations Management. Teaching ERP Systems in the Supply Chain Management Course Huei Lee, Kuo Lane Chenc, & Jiaqin Yang Communications of the IIMA 78 2006 Volume 6 Issue 3 RESEARCH DESIGN The purpose of this study is to investigate teaching Enterprise Resource Planning system in a supply chain management course. Five SAP models were used for in explaining the concept of supply chain management in a SCM course offered by the College of Business at an AACSB accredited university in Michigan. In this study, the remote access system developed by the SAP University Alliances program was used. The research design was used by authors (Chen and Lee ,2005). This study continues the work in Lee and Chen (2005). Population and Sample Size The subjects for this study were students enrolled in a three-credit-hour course, “Information Technology in Supply Chain Management”. This course was taught by a CIS professor. There were 20 students in the class. The survey instruments used in this research were a specific survey questionnaire about SAP and student evaluations after the classes. Pre-Testing the Model for Applicability and Completeness Prior to the 2004 spring study, the online model was tested for applicability and completeness. A demonstration of the completed model was given for several different classes during the Winter/Fall 2003 semesters. These students were all given a short survey to gather information on their attitude and evaluation of the application after seeing it in a demonstration mode. The classes which participated in this survey were two sections of the Information Resource Management class and one section of the 200 level of Business Information System class.