Graduates receive SAP Appreciation Awards

Five students receiving Master of Accountancy degrees at Youngstown State University’s Spring Commencement earlier this month are the recipients of SAP Appreciation Awards.

Christopher Hammond, Amanda Snowden, Marc Centofanti, Sarah Mathews and Sara Salman were given the awards by Ray Shaffer, director of the Master of Accountancy program in the YSU Williamson College of Business Administration.

"The award is given by SAP for satisfactory completion of a program of study by the SAP product portfolio as offered by YSU,” said Birsen Karpak, YSU Distinguished Professor of Management and a SAP Certified Business Associate.

“All of these students successfully completed Business Process Integration, configuration of SAP for a bicycle company and Supply Chain Management - procurement, consumption-based planning, materials requirement planning and Sales and Operations planning for a snack company with SAP."

SAP, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, is the market leader in enterprise application software and serves 437,000 customers in 180 countries, including 92 percent of Forbes Global 2000 companies and 98 of the world’s 100 most valued brands
“One of the conversation-starters during my interview with my employer was that I put ‘Knowledge in SAP & ERP systems’ on my resume,” Mathews said. “I am thankful to have the opportunity to get experience with SAP since it is used in such large, Fortune 500 companies today."

Snowden said she used SyteLine, another Enterprise Resource Planning system, in her current job. “I use the information system in order to do monthly reconciliation of all of accounts,” she said. “I also pull data from transactions to analyze costs and profitability."

For more information on the Master of Accountancy program in the YSU Lariccia School of Accounting and Finance, visit https://ysu.edu/master-accountancy.