Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become a strategic tool to facilitate the business performance and efficiency across the globe. India as an emerging economic power from Asia has also witnessed large scale integration of business processes through ERP implementation and immensely benefitted from such initiatives. However, it has been found that very limited numbers of B-schools are conducting ERP training for the students of business management. Still the acceptance of ERP as a learnable discipline with regular business management curriculum has remained a distant dream in most of the B-schools across India. The present research has attempted to understand the dilemma of the students pursuing business management education in selected B-schools of Kolkata, the state capital of West Bengal and also a popular hub of business management education in eastern Indi in specific and in India in general. A total number of 660 students randomly chosen from six premier business schools of Kolkata have been surveyed through structured questionnaire. The responses have been analysed through standard statistical processes and hypotheses formulated in course of research have also been tested. The result indicates lack of knowledge about the course content of ERP among students, though the significance of ERP for career facilitation has been found to be widely accepted.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become a strategic tool to facilitate the business performance and efficiency across the globe. India as an emerging economic power from Asia has also witnessed large scale integration of business processes through ERP implementation and immensely benefitted fr...