BYU–Hawaii has SAP courses on campus and is also holding TERP 10 exam during the summer break every year.
James Lee, dean of the College of Business, Computing & Government and SAP program director, explained what SAP and TERP 10 are. “SAP Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing, is a German multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. TERP 10 is a certification exam offered by SAP, and its official title is Integration of business processes.”
Lee continued, “For example, if you posted a sales order, it will automatically check and verify whether you got the quantity units and met the delivery, and it has the information of your customers of those stores and an integrated system so that you can do all of the things from one place. You can do sales, purchasing, inventory management all in one place to run an entire organization. When people take TERP 10, they need to know all of these business processes integrate with each other using SAP.”
Students who are taking the last class in summer for SAP have lots of hard work to do. Bobo Oi Tung Helen Cheng, a junior majoring in accounting and hospitality tourism management from Hong Kong, said she would review all the things before she go take the test.
Although it is just a 7-week class, she spent time to study and learned how to process a document by using different processes.
Cheng said, “It is a great class for me to prepare well for my TERP 10 Examination. By learning the SAP system, it helps me to have better opportunity to work in the information system area.”
Nowadays, there are more than 291,000 customers using the SAP system in 190 different countries, according to the SAP website. All those SAP systems out there need employees to manage it. Passing the TERP 10 examination will help her to have comparative advantage among other graduate students.
Not only a few students said SAP is a really important class to take. Almost all of the students taking this class have strong confidence that SAP will be a really important part of what makes them stand out as a potential employee for employers.
Chad Tsuhako, a senior majoring in information systems from Texas, said, “I am taking the SAP class because I recognize that is a skill that has a lot of demand, and I am in a unique opportunity where the school offers a chance to be a SAP business associate. I am taking advantage of it. I basically learned all of the business process, and how they integrate with each other. With SAP, we are able to use this software in order to help business in a more efficient manner.”
In the same note, Kenji Yamatani, a senior in supply chain management from Japan, said, “I have learned all of the structure of selling goods to customers by using a new system. I am able to do all the steps that are useful for my supply chain major. That’s one of the things I really like and I have learned a lot from this class. Brother Lee is a really good teacher, and I like his teaching style. I want to apply the information that I have learned in my real life, especially in my future job. I work in PCC, so I use another system which is similar to SAP.”
Lee said this year will be the fourth year BYUH has TERP 10 offered on campus. The first year, there were 24 students who participated in TERP 10 in one section, and 35 students in one section the second year. Last year there were two sections of TERP 10, and 57 students between the two sections. This year there are about 60 participating between the two sections.
He said, “This test is extremely hard. The national rate for people who take TERP ten is about 70 percent pass, but we typically have 85 percent to 90 percent of our students pass.” Lee said he wishes all the students can do well in the exam this year.