{"id":4495,"date":"2017-07-15T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2017-07-15T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T14:25:39","slug":"pharmacy-students-part-of-interdisciplinary-graduate-student-group-that-wins-simulated-experience-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2017\/07\/15\/pharmacy-students-part-of-interdisciplinary-graduate-student-group-that-wins-simulated-experience-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy Students part of Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Group that Wins Simulated Experience Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/interdisciplinary-graduate-student-group-wins-simulated-experience-competition\/diverse-program-mix-on-sap-team-2017\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Diverse Program Mix on SAP Team 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Diverse-Program-Mix-on-SAP-Team-2017.png?resize=650%2C276\" alt=\"Students participating in SAP-simulated group project represent four disciplines from across campus\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Students from Belmont\u2019s Jack C. Massey College of Business Graduate School of Business (MBA and Professional MBA), College of Pharmacy (joint PharmD\/MBA) and College of Law (joint MBA\/JD) that are enrolled in an accounting course and a management course recently participated in a SAP-simulated group project\u00a0and won among their classmates. This is the first time that a\u00a0student group has included participants from all four disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>The SAP-based simulation provides an opportunity for graduate students, in groups of 4-5, to run a simulated company. Each team is responsible for making strategic decisions including product mix, pricing and marketing levels, investment in additional capacity and cash flow management, among other things. They then operate their companies over six simulated \u2018months\u2019 of productions. This opportunity is unique as students are able to use SAP, an enterprise software system that is used by many leading manufacturing companies including Nissan, Bridgestone, Tractor Supply Company and Mapco.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Dean &amp; Senior Professor of Performance Excellence Dr. Joe Alexander said the opportunity\u00a0to work alongside students from other disciplines is incredibly valuable for participants. \u201cIn contemporary business settings, that\u2019s the name of the game,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cCross-functional teams where individuals from different departments and functions must learn to work together, utilizing the skills and information from their areas to help make teams more successful in solving business problems are apparent in today\u2019s organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from Belmont\u2019s Jack C. Massey College of Business Graduate School of Business (MBA and Professional MBA), College of Pharmacy (joint PharmD\/MBA) and College of Law (joint MBA\/JD) that are enrolled in an accounting course and a management course recently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2017\/07\/15\/pharmacy-students-part-of-interdisciplinary-graduate-student-group-that-wins-simulated-experience-competition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}