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Enterprise Management Technology

Course Descriptions — Enterprise Management Technology

EMT 351 —  Business Process Overview — 3 credits
This is the first course in the area of Enterprise Management. Students will learn to appreciate the integration of a company’s core business processes. Students will be exposed to the main business processes that drive an organization, the interactions within and between them, and the effect of integration on the decision-making environment. This course uses an enterprise-wide integrated information-systems software and simulated data for a model company. (EMT 351 and OIM 353 are offered jointly.)
EMT 367 — Enterprise Accounting and Control — 3 credits
(Prerequisites: ACC 251-252 or ACC 253-254) This course examines how accounting principles, methods, and techniques are harnessed to meet the reporting needs of an organization in an integrated management-and-information-technology environment. It is designed to demonstrate the integration of both financial and managerial accounting procedures with the core business processes and organizational elements of an enterprise. (EMT 367 and AIS 367 are offered jointly.)
EMT 460 — Customer Support Systems — 3 credits
(Prerequisites: EMT 351, MKT 351) An interdisciplinary approach to enterprise management that focuses on the customer is emphasized. The objective of the course is to orient enterprise-wide decision making to successful customer relationship management on an ongoing basis. (EMT 460 and MKT 460 are offered jointly.)
EMT 461 — Enterprise Treasury Management —3 credits 
(Prerequisites: EMT 351, FIN 351) This course is designed to provide advanced study in the financial-management area through detailed analysis of financial statements, liquidity crises, cash optimization, credit analysis, banking arrangements, loan contracts, commercial paper and the use of money market. (EMT 461 and FIN 361 are offered jointly.)
EMT 462 — Production Planning and Control — 3 credits
(Prerequisites: EMT 351, OIM 352) This course concerns the study of production planning and control activities in an enterprise resource-planning context. Topics include: aggregate planning, capacity planning, master production scheduling, material requirements planning, production- activity control, purchasing, inventory models, and Just-in-Time systems. Interactions between operations and the other functional areas of the business will be demonstrated using Enterprise Management Systems software.
EMT 463 — Enterprise HR Systems — 3 credits
(Prerequisites: EMT 351, MGT 351) This course explains the functions of a human resources division or department including: job descriptions, labor demographics, recruitment and hiring, turnover and mobility, interviewing, aptitude and other employee testing, performance evaluation, disciplinary procedures, employee health and safety, wage and hour administration, government regulations; and the handling of absenteeism, alcoholism and drug addiction. (EMT 463 and MGT 361 are offered jointly.)
EMT 470 —  Enterprise Information Systems — 3 credits
(Prerequisite: EMT 351) This course is concerned with the management and operations of information systems in an integrated enterprise. It will examine the integrated business processes of an enterprise. Students will analyze and study enterprise systems software in detail. Students will be exposed to the management of the enterprise systems software. They will learn about business integration through the concepts of business engineering and business workflow.
EMT 472 —  Configuration and Consulting — 3 credits
(Prerequisite: EMT 351) Focus is on the implementation of enterprise systems projects and the role of consultants in such implementation. It examines the integrated business processes of an enterprise, and the concepts of developing data models, business objects, and event-process chains. Students develop implementation plans for enterprise systems software. The course will also discuss the configuration procedures in implementing enterprise systems software. The goal of the course is to prepare the students to become consultants in enterprise systems.

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