It was heartening to see a total of two teams from the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology secure the first and second place in the Malaysia Southern League of Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) Challenge 2016 held at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru on 24 September 2016.
Known as Peanut Butter and Javaman, the two teams comprised Business Information System students Kua Xian Tong, Leong Wing Yao, Dickson Chin Dick Chun, Wong Sook Fang and Khor Teik Aun; and Wong Kai Seng, Loo Wei Jing, Chua Wei Jie, Chew Zhi Shian, Wong Wai Man and Chin Kah Men respectively. Mentored by FICT lecturer Su Lee Seng, the teams managed to best the eight other teams competing in the Malaysian Southern League. The Champion team Peanut Butter went on to represent Malaysia in the Grand Final of ERM Challenge 2016 held in Singapore on 30 September 2016.
One of the participants, Kua said, “We feel extremely happy and proud that we won in the Malaysia level competition and represented Malaysia to compete in Singapore. It is one of the best experiences we have had through our journey in UTAR.” He added, “In a game or the real world, teamwork is key to success. If you want to strive for excellence, communication and teamwork are extremely important to win as a team.”
Kua also added that his team would like to thank their mentor Su for his endless support and guidance, ensuring that they do well in the competition.
The ERM Challenge is a yearly inter-varsity competition hosted by the Singapore Institute of Management University (UNISIM) together with Monsoon Academy and sponsored by SAP Asia Pacific.
The competition was based on the MonsoonSIM Business Simulation Platform where each team competed with other teams in a competitive virtual business world. Each team consisted of five members, and each member managed several of the 12 simulated Business modules, namely Finance, Procurement, Retail, Marketing, Warehouse and Logistics, Wholesales, Production, Manufacture Recourse Planning, Forecast, Maintenance, Human Resource and Customer Service. Using MonsoonSIM, teams must work to manage their resources and to execute their business strategies.
The challenge was aimed to encourage graduating students to embrace business process learning, promote the concept of experiential learning via Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) game platform, expose Millennials to ‘Education by Gamification’ and to incubate future ERP talent.
Second from left: Su, Sook Fang, Khor, Kai Seng, Chin, Kua and Leong with the other officials at the competition
Second from left: Su, Chin, Chua, Chew, Loo and Wai Man with the other officials at the competition
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