Introduction

The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) concentration 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, Accounting and Finance, and Human Resources to achieve company goals of improving business processes by using ERP software. An ERP software such as SAP 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. The courses that would be offered in this concentration are: 1) ERP Overview, 2) Business Intelligence, 3) ERP - E-Commerce, and 4) Supply Chain Management.

MBA Concentration in Enterprise Resource Planning (12 hours)

MISY 5340 ERP - E-Commerce (3)

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 Visual Composer, which focuses on the model oriented development approach. 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.

MISY 5350 ERP Overview (3)

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 5360 Business Intelligence (3)

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.

MGMT 5370 Supply Chain Management (3)

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.

Sample Degree Plan
(16 months - 36 Hours)

1st Fall Semester (9 hours)
ECON 5380 Environment of Business and Ethics (3)
FINC 5310 Financial Management (3)
MISY 5350 ERP Overview (3)

Spring Semester (9 hours)
BUAL 5380 Managerial Decision Making (3)
ECON 5370 Managerial Economics (3)
MISY 5360 Business Intelligence (3)

Summer I (6 hours)
MISY 5340 ERP - E-Commerce (3)
ACCT 5370 Managerial Accounting (3)

Summer II (3 hours)
MGMT 5370 Supply Chain Management (3)

2nd Fall Semester (9 hours)
MGMT 5340 International Business (3)
MGMT 5380 Strategic Management (3)
MKTG 5310 Marketing Management (3)

Downloadable Degree Plan

MBA - Enterprise Resource Planing Concentration (Microsoft Excel Format)