Prerequisite: BUS 101 or CIS 201 or CIS 203. Recommended: Hands-on experience using Windows software and keyboarding skills.

Course introduces SAP, Enterprise Resource Planning. The course is intended to explain how the fundamental business processes interact within an ERP system in the functional areas of; sales and distribution, materials management, production planning, financial accounting, controlling, and human resource management. Students may not receive credit in both BUS 249 and CIS 249.

1. Explain the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in business functions.
2. Show how companies use ERP systems to improve business functions and prosper.
3. Use SAP to solve business process problems and develop process improvement suggestions.
4. Obtain hands-on training by using variousmodules of SAP R/3 software

Students and employees at Oakton Community College are required to demonstrate academic integrity and follow Oakton's Code of Academic Conduct. This code prohibits:

• cheating,
• plagiarism (turning in work not written by you, or lacking proper citation),
• falsification and fabrication (lying or distorting the truth),
• helping others to cheat,
• unauthorized changes on official documents,
• pretending to be someone else or having someone else pretend to be you,
• making or accepting bribes, special favors, or threats, and
• any other behavior that violates academic integrity.

There are serious consequences to violations of the academic integrity policy. Oakton's policies and procedures provide students a fair hearing if a complaint is made against you. If you are found to have violated the policy, the minimum penalty is failure on the assignment and, a disciplinary record will be established and kept on file in the office of the Vice President for Student Affairs for a period of 3 years.
Details of the Code of Academic Conduct can be found in the Student Handbook.

1. Business Functions and  Business Processes
2. Development of ERP Systems
3. Marketing Information Systems and Sales Order Process
4. Production and Supply Chain Management Information Systems
5. Accounting in ERP Systems
6. Human Resource Processes with ERP
7. SAP ERPSim Manufacturing Game

A variety of learning activities will be utilized such as: lectures, student exercises and case study, tests, assignments, and class discussion. Materials provided include an introduction to SAP, navigation exercises to acquaint students in getting around SAP-ERP. Program demonstrations, hands-on usage, textbook reading, applicable web sites, lecture, class discussions, group work, and guest speakers may be used.
Course may be taught as face-to-face, media-based, hybrid or online course.

Course content and assignments encourage critical thinking, therefore, student will be expected to read and write English at the college level.

Concepts in Enterprise Resource Planning, 3rd Edition, by Ellen Monk and Bret Wagner. ERPSim Manufacturing Simulation Game – online through University of Montreal

Class Categories	Points Possible	Total
Individual Report & Oral Presentations: 2	100 points each	=200
Group Presentations:1	100 points	=100
Exams: 4	100 points	=400
SAP: Exercises & Case Study	50	=300
	Total	=1000

NOTE: The sequence of topics is subject to change depending on the class progress.

College Policy of the Observance of Religious Holidays
Oakton Community College recognizes the broad diversity of religious beliefs of its constituencies. The College has embraced a practice of shared responsibility in the event a religious observance interferes with class work or assignments. Students who inform instructors well in advance of an intended absence for a major religious observance will not be penalized. The instructor will make reasonable accommodations for students, which may include providing a makeup test, altering assignment dates, permitting a student to attend another section of the same course for a class period or similar remedies. Instructors are not responsible for teaching material again.

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If you have a documented learning, psychological, or physical disability you may be entitled to reasonable academic accommodations or services. To request accommodations or services, contact the ASSIST office in the Learning Center. All students are expected to fulfill essential course requirements. The College will not waive any essential skill or requirement of a course or degree program.