Introduction to Logistics Information Systems (9073400) - Ashkelon Academic College
Course Outline
During the course the following topics will be taught:
- Organization and information
- The business environment of the organization
- Challenges of information systems
- Information systems in the organization and decision making process
- Types of information systems
- Data (data warehousing and data mining)
- Life cycle of information systems
- Development of information systems
- MAFTHEACH procedure
- Functional requirements of information systems
- ERP systems
- Business Warehouse
The course presentation can be downloaded from the following link: PDF

Mandatory Articles
The course includes a number of articles which are mandatory articles that the student must read independently. The material appearing in the articles will be included in the exam.
The articles are:

Exam
Exam date: Details will be published later.

Additional Material
- Summaries of course material from previous years, from the non-official site to logistics
- Jacobs F. R. and Weston Jr. F. C., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - A Brife History, Journal of Operation Managment, 2007, Vol. 25, 357-365.
- Fayyad U., Piatetsky-Shapiro G. and Smyth P., From Data Mining to Knowledge Discovery in Databases, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 1996.
- Manufacturing Resource Planning
