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About the Program
This Certificate can provide valuable education on what an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is along with hands on experience to help you move up within your organization or find a new position elsewhere. SAP® is the leading Enterprise Resource Planning software company in the world and we will utilize SAP® software to learn how to better manage business operations.
Certificate Requirements
To receive the Enterprise Resource Planning Certificate, participants must successfully complete the four required courses, maintaining at least a "C" average.
Career Potential
Demand for applicants with ERP and SAP® experience is growing locally as larger companies are implementing an ERP system to help manage business processes. Manufacturing and utility companies are leading the way with the most job postings requesting experience with ERP Systems.
Source: Burning Glass Technologies’ Labor Insight™ Real-time Labor Market Information tool.
Featured Instructors
Professor June Wright is currently a Senior Analytics Analyst at Air Products and also the President of the Philadelphia Chapter of Americas’ SAP® Users Group (ASUG). She has a Master of Science in Workforce Education and Development from Penn State University and also a Master of Science in Information Systems from Drexel University.
Derek P. Loranca leads the Enterprise Business Intelligence Center of Excellence at Aetna. He is a SAP Mentor and Vice Chair of the Americas SAP User Group Philadelphia Chapter. He has been a guest lecturer in analytics at La Salle University and coordinated a wide range of technology user group and networking sessions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
Derek holds a MBA in Healthcare Management and a MS in Healthcare Finance from Temple University, in addition to a BS in Management Information Systems from La Salle University.
Course Offerings
Introduction to Enterprise Resource Planning – SCM 5030
The introduction course provides students with a broad understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning allowing students to learn the purpose and value of an ERP system to an organization. Students will learn the areas of a company affected by an ERP system by incorporating hands on processes within multiple disciplines. This course is built for those without any understanding, or very little understanding of what an ERP system is and how it can be used within an organization.
Dates: TBD–Please check back
Times: 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Delivery: Remote Learning via Zoom Classroom
Cost: $575
Cloud Strategies for the Enterprise – SCM 5032
This course will give students an overview of the different cloud implementations that occur in a modern enterprise. Public, Private, Hybrid cloud options? Infrastructure, Platform or Software as a Service? Students will learn about the various cloud options that modern enterprises have available to run their businesses on
- Cloud Overview - Is it really just someone else's computer?
- Cloud Types Private Public Hybrid
- Service Types Infrastructure (IaaS) Platform (PaaS) Software (SaaS)
- Service Providers Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services
- Consumer Cloud OneDrive Google Drive
- Cloud Analytics Big Data Visualization Data Discovery
- Implementation Strategies Self guided System Integrator Analysts (Supply/Buy Side)
Dates: TBD–Please check back
Time: 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Delivery: Remote Learning via Zoom Classroom
Cost: $575
Instructor: Derek Loranca
Optional Credit Course: Introduction to ERP and Business Processes – MIS 404
This course will give you a competitive edge in two areas. (1) It gives students a solid foundation of knowledge regarding how businesses operate and
their key business processes, as well as, (2) hands on experience with ERP software to understand the software, in this case, the SAP ERP system, giving students insight into how an ERP system works and how it integrates and manages an organization’s business processes.
This course provides a more in-depth review of business processes within an organization than the above Introduction to Enterprise Resource Planning course.
Dates: TBD–Please check back
Times: 6:15 to 9:00 p.m.
Room: Live via Video
Cost: Tuition Rate
Hot Topics Courses:
(pick three to complete your certificate)
Business Analytics in Enterprise Applications – SCM 5031
Students will learn the purpose and value of data analytics for an enterprise, be able to explain the purpose and differences between reporting, visualization and predictive analytics, and be able to extract business intelligence from various data sets utilizing various forms of analytics within the SAP ERP system.
This course is delivered in a blended format utilizing Zoom for video as the live face-to-face portion of the course and online in Canvas (the learning management system at Penn State).
Dates: TBD–Please check back
Times: 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Room: Live via Video
Cost: $575
More courses are coming soon!
Cloud
Course Objectives:
- Be able discuss cloud solutions for the enterprise and define the various terms such as PaaS, SaaS, etc.
- Discuss and determine new use cases for cloud solutions
- Be able to discuss the various technologies and economics of cloud solutions
Advanced ERP Simulation
Course Objectives:
- Obtain hands-on experience managing an enterprise using a world-class ERP system
- Be able to use data analytics to make effective business decisions and evaluate the results.
- Be able to manage inventories, supply chain, investments, pricing, marketing and production for an enterprise
In-memory Databases
- Course Outline:
- Introduction to in-memory databases
- Hana technology
- SAP S/4 Hana Introduction
- Hana for analytics
Machine Learning AI
Course Objectives:
- Be able to discuss the concepts behind machine learning/AI
- Be able to discuss the state-of-the-art technologies related to machine learning/AI.
- Be able to determine use cases for these technologies in the enterprise
- Be able to apply machine learning for a simple use case.
BlockChain
Course Objectives:
- Be able to intelligently discuss the concept of blockchain and how it can be effectively utilized in the enterprise
- Be able to discover and discuss valid uses cases for blockchain
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