IT Professional’s revelations on achieved goals and mistakes during ERP implementation and exploitation

Creating effective relation between real business and education – initiative started by Natalia Futekova, lecturer at The University of national and world economy /UNWE/, was organized for the fifth time this year. Some of the best experts from IT area were given the opportunity to share their experience with the students from UNWE on the topic ERP systems.

The main purpose of the lecturers was to convey practical knowledge and know-how for the complex business management solutions such as ERP, CRM, and BI to the students.

Thanks to the invitation of Natalia Futekova, Rosen Karaivanov, Manager of Team VISION Bulgaria, was part of the program for the fifth consecutive year. He presented Microsoft Dynamics NAV – covering significant moments from the history of the solution, key functionalities and modules and best practices for effective implementation and exploitation of the system. The audience had the chance to hear more about the most common mistakes while choosing and implementing an ERP system and different ways to avoid most of them. Mr. Karaivanov shared some interesting cases from his own practice as a consultant and manager of a software company. At the end of the lecture the students had the opportunity to check out the capabilities of the system and see how it really works by creating accounting report on their own.

Every ERP system is big and complicated database which has different functionalities, modules and lots of practical knowledge in it. It is very important to realize that the BMS systems have all the best practices for each particular business implemented into their algorithms. This, exactly, practical knowledge about business processes management via ERP system, was presented to the students by the lecturers. Only professionals could speak about practical “know-how” based on their own experience – their own achieved goals and mistakes.