College Named Exclusive Provider of Oracle Boot Camp
September 2, 2011 – Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, is the first college or university in the world authorized to provide the Oracle Supply Chain Boot Camp—a six-week online course designed to quickly and efficiently train Oracle Partner Network members on the ins and outs of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
An ERP system coordinates an organization's
information—manufacturing, financial, human resources, supply chain
management, and more—in a single database.
"Penn State Behrend is considered a leader in ERP systems," said Frank
DeWolf, director of the college's ERP Center of Excellence, an outreach
center of the Sam and Irene Black School of Business. "We offer ERP
undergraduate courses and a certificate through the Black School of
Business plus workforce development courses utilizing Oracle's ERP
system.
"We are honored to be an Oracle Partner Network Delivery Partner, and
the first institution to deliver this training," he added.
Oracle, a Fortune 200 company, offers the boot camp exclusively to its
more than 20,000 partners, including IBM, Deloitte and Capgemini. The
course covers Oracle inventory, purchasing and order management, and
provides participants with a foundation of Oracle E-Business Suite
supply chain management modules.
DeWolf along with Brian Zentis and Chris Wassel, senior research
support associates, team-teach the boot camp. Thirty people are
expected to enroll in the upcoming session, scheduled to begin this
month.
