This course exposes students to how core business concepts are implemented in real-world organizational settings. Key business processes covered include procurement (materials management), fulfillment (sales), and production (manufacturing). The class meets in a computer lab and enables hands-on experience, with instructor guidance, to the ERP solution from SAP, the world's largest business software company. Using the system's core modules and data warehouse, students will gain insight into online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP).

Recent advances in the areas of productivity and quality improvement. Specific topics include all or some of: ISO 9000, Total Quality Management, Lean Thinking, Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), and miscellaneous techniques from Just-in-Time. If time permits, topics from one or more of the American Production and Inventory Control Society's (APICS) certification exams for the CPIM (the Operations Management counterpart to the CPA in accounting). Includes team field project at a local company.

Quality control concepts including: fundamental computer and statistical concepts: Statistical Process Control (SPC) using control charts; methods for quality improvement; acceptance sampling; industrial experimentation and reliability.

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Selected topics of current significance to researchers and practitioners in the hospitality industry. The course emphasizes the identification of advancements in theories and their applications in hospitality cultures of inquiry.

Examines research and scholarly approaches to organization theory by investigating both the concept 'organization' and the concept 'theory'. Presents such perspectives as decision theory, structural contingency theory, institutional theory, transaction cost economics, and network theory.

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Presentation of journal reports on business topics utilizing a quantitative approach.

Examines current threats to the sustainability of the global economy, the environmental and social impacts of current business practices, and how both governmental regulations and for profit business initiatives are needed to address these issues.

The cultural, economic, social, legal, political, or organizational forces that influence multinational marketing operations. Prerequisite: MARKETNG 300 or 301.