To manage complex business processes in today’s multi-facility, multi-national, wired and wireless world, firms need integrated software packages.  Most businesses are moving away from homegrown solution to Enterprise Requirements Planning (ERP) systems.  ERP systems are incredibly complex, general-purpose software packages with capabilities to support a wide variety of companies and industries.  As a result, they must configured to support the organizational structures and business processes of the particular company to efficiently and effectively manage a firms business processes. 

This course will give students hands-on experience configuring an SAP’s ERP Enterprise ERP system.  In the first half of the course, students will follow detailed instructions provided by the instructor to configure the SAP ERP system to support the main business processes for the fictional Fitter Snacker Company described in Concepts in Enterprise Resource Planning.  In the second half of the course, students will use the instructions provided for the Fitter Snacker Company to configure a the SAP ERP system to support the business processed for the fictional Marshall Muffler Company using basic data provided by the instructor.

By understanding how an ERP system can be configured to manage a business process, the students will gain a better understanding of the integrated nature of business processes in general. 

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