Introduction

The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Certificate in the MBA program is about exposing our MBA students to the concept of integrating different business functional areas such as Marketing and Sales, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Asset Management, Inventory and Warehouse Management, Accounting and Finance, and Human Resources to achieve company goals of improving business processes by using ERP software.

ERP software such as SAP R/3 can support integration of business processes that cut across different functional areas. This concentration will demonstrate how ERP systems can help a company cut costs and improve efficiencies of business processes by providing managers with accurate, consistent, and real-time data across all business functions.

Students completing the Enterprise Resource Planning Certification will be encouraged to enroll in a two-week SAP Academy (TERP10) which may lead to an internationally recognized certification in SAP.

ERP Certification
Four courses taught online
No GMAT required
SAP ERP Academy (TERP10) offered
Students must obtain a 3.0 GPA for the four courses with a "C" or better in each class

Courses Offered
MISY 5340 ERP-E-Commerce
MISY 5350 ERP Overview
MISY 5360 Business Intelligence OR INEN 5382 Enterprise Data Mining
MGMT 5370 Supply Chain Management OR INEN 5357 Supply Chain Mgmt

ERP Certification

MBA students who have completed 3 ERP courses or more are encouraged to take the SAP ERP Academy (TERP10). TERP10 is a highly intensive training by certified SAP trainers focusing on the integration of business processes and covering 16 different SAP modules. The Academy is concluded with a certification exam on Day 10. It is the first step toward becoming an SAP Certified Associate.

Admission

Student must have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.

Turn the ERP certificate credits into an MBA

Students must meet all admission requirements including submitting a GMAT score.

MISY 5340 ERP Overview: This course will provide students an overview of the fundamental business processes and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems used to run organizations. The course will begin with an overview of business processes across the supply chain, and then will show how integrated processes create value, and finally the last third of the semester will be spent to demonstrate how these integrated processes fit into ERP systems by assigning students to participate in an ERP simulation system (ERPsim) strategy game.

MISY 5350 ERP-E-Commerce: Organizations find the need to develop custom "front end" web based applications to add functionality to and make their ERP systems more user friendly. This course will provide students with the conceptual foundation as well as hands on experience at developing these web based applications. The course teaches SAP NetWeaver and SAP Visual Composer. With SAP NetWeaver Portal, you can quickly and effectively integrate SAP solutions, third-party applications, legacy systems, databases, unstructured documents, internal and external Web content, and collaboration tools. SAP Visual Composer is a powerful design tool that facilitates the creation of portal content using a graphical user interface, rather than manually writing code. It provides sophisticated, yet simple-to-use tools for creating portal iViews that process data from back-end systems such as R/3 and BW, as well as external sources such as relational databases and Web services.

Choose one of the following:
MISY 5360 Business Intelligence: This course will expose students to business intelligence which is defined as the user-centered process of exploring data, data relationships and trends - thereby helping to improve overall decision making. This involves an iterative process of accessing data (ideally stored in the data warehouse) and analyzing it- thereby deriving insights, drawing conclusions and communicating findings - to effect change positively within the enterprise. BI is comprised of four major product segments: interactive query tools, reporting tools, advanced Decision Support Systems, and Executive Support Systems. In this course, we will use SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), a major enterprise software applications for Business Intelligence, analytical, reporting and Data Warehousing (DW) solution.

INEN 5382 Enterprise Data Mining: This course introduces students to data mining focusing on business data. Major topics covered are data integration, reporting, classification algorithms, clustering, regression, and neural networks.

Choose one of the following:
MGMT 5370 Supply Chain Management: The primary objective of this course is to provide students with an integrative view of the purchasing and logistic functions and the role they play in the overall operations of the organization. The use and applications of information systems (SAP ECC) in the purchasing and logistic functions is included in the course. The information system will provide a foundation for the understanding of the integrative nature of the business organization today.

INEN 5357 Supply Chain Management: A survey of supply chain management techniques and methods. Topics include logistics, purchasing, inventory systems, demand management, supply chain visibility and Supply Chain and Logistics ERP practice.