Parker Steele knew he had real-world opportunities as a student at Poole College. However, he may not have expected that one event would have such a profound impact.
That's what happened recently when accounting and information technology dual degree students demonstrated a bot developed for the purchase-to-pay process they learned about in Poole accounting professor Marianne Bradford's class. is.
Mr. Steele presented live to a group of approximately 130 business executives from North Carolina State University and then answered technical questions.
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“He did such a great job at everything that we ended up with a bunch of guys who wanted to hire him on the spot. People have told me many times how impressed they are,” says Bradford.
Steele spent valuable time networking with business leaders the night before the event and at lunch the next day.
He spoke at a conference of the Carolina Chapter of the Americas SAP User Group, a network related to Systems Applications and Products (SAP) enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Companies use his SAP centralized system to allow all departments to access and share the same information.
At the conference, Steele demonstrated a bot that he and his classmates tested last fall in Bradford's course, “ERP Systems, Implementation, Risk, and Analysis.” In this class, you created a purchase order in SAP using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and software from the business automation platform UiPath for the first time.
Explaining the bot to a room full of executives was “nervous to say the least, but it was a great opportunity,” Steele says. “I am grateful to the Poole College of Management and its faculty for providing this opportunity to our students.”
