Hello students. My name is Doctor Mia Simmons Holman and I'm excited to be your instructor for enterprise resource management throughout the course. If you have any questions or any challenges or just need to reach out, please do so by contacting me via my email at M SI M M O N s at Lakewood dot E D U. You can also find it on the home page of your course. I'm excited to teach this course because in this day and time, all companies across the globe are using er M systems, enterprise resource management systems to carry on with their day to day processes and functions across the globe. In this course, enterprise resource management, you will have the opportunity to cover planning and manufacturing and accounting for several businesses. You will also be provided the basic understanding and methodology of practice for er m software packages and explore interaction among different businesses and business functions. Just to cover a few topics, you're gonna learn about key business functions and processes throughout different companies. Two, you're gonna look at marketing information systems and sale order process through A er P. You'll also look at production and supply chain management systems. And you also look at accounting in the er P system just to name a few, some helpful tips to help you be successful in this course is one, stay on track with your assignments each week. If you have any questions or running into any challenges, please make sure you communicate with me two. If you're going to use external or third party data to complete your assignments, please remember to give the author credit. If you are using the data or content or contacts from a website or journal, please make sure you provide the appropriate A P A reference that will ensure that you are successful in this course. And with your discussion questions, I do advise you to at least have a minimum of 3-5 sentences and make sure you provide a reference if there is some supporting context that needs to go with your discussion.