food supply chain: purchasing, logistics & more professor mellie pullman isqa 458/558 fall 2012
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Food Supply Chain:Food Supply Chain:Purchasing, Logistics & Purchasing, Logistics & MoreMoreProfessor Mellie PullmanISQA 458/558Fall 2012
Today’s ActivitiesToday’s Activities
IntroductionSyllabus &
Important DatesWhat is Food
Supply Chain Management?
Unfine Richardson Case Discussion
Photographs & Index Cards
You can call me:You can call me:
MellieORDr. / Professor
Pullman
Office hours:Tuesday 4:00-5:00 PM
Or by request
Course FormatCourse Format
Allowed 10 minutes break per hour of teaching
5:40-7:10-ish
Break: 15 minutes
7:30-9:00-ish
My BackgroundMy BackgroundEducation
◦ BS &MS (Mechanical Engineering)◦ MBA & Ph.D. (Operations Management & Marketing)
Work Experience: Food related◦ Personal Chef◦ Restaurant Management & Catering◦ Brew-master and Microbrewery Start-up Consultant◦ Consulting (hospitality & food companies)
Academic research◦ Sustainable food supply chain issues◦ Chefs & the Innovation Process◦ Models for local food production & distribution (Grass-fed
beef, Coops, Organic flour)
Consulting & Community Consulting & Community Service Service
◦ Cirque Du Soleil ◦ Hotels & Airports◦ Ski resorts◦ Mountaineering Products◦ Nestle ◦ International Telecom◦ Non-profits
Portland Food Policy & Purchasing Councils
Food Alliance Upstream Health
Other fun facts…Other fun facts…
Teaching 20 years at schools around the US and Europe
Writing & publishing articles & booksTraveling, rock climbing, skiing, cooking
and researching food producers, wineries, breweries, and restaurants.
What about you?What about you?
Please spend a few minutes filling out this index card with:◦Your preferred first name (& last name)◦Contact email ◦Where are you from?◦Fun Facts about you
If you have never had a class from me, I will need to take a photo of you during the break.
The Classroom MixThe Classroom MixLectures
Case Discussions
Breakout Discussion Groups
Guest Speakers
Field Trips
Intellectual ContributionsIntellectual Contributions
Activities Individual Quizzes (3 of 4)
30 %
Individual Class Attendance and Participation
10 %
Individual Assignments -Value-added Food Product-Ocado Exercise & write-up-Tour paper
30 %
Team Presentation 10 %Team Paper 20 %
Total 100 %
Assignments & QuizzesAssignments & Quizzes3 Assignments
◦ Trace a fresh food item ◦ Ocado Internet Grocery
(time!)◦ Field Trip & write-up.
Due 3 of 4 Quizzes◦ Oct 9◦ Oct 16◦ Nov 6◦ Nov 13
Questions are provided in the syllabus. Each case requires answering the Questions and providing a recommendation. Limited to 2 pages not Including supporting exhibits. Write-ups due at beginning of class.
Food Company Tours Food Company Tours Organically Grown Company
(Oct. 23)Possibly another on that night
◦Note: Reading prior to tour and tour write-up due the following week.
Hopworks Urban Brewery (Nov 27) ◦Note: Readings (on-line)
prior to tour.
Tour PaperTour PaperPrior to the tour, please prepare a least one
question to ask the host about the company and/or industry
After the tour, you will write a summary of the experience◦ Company organized around product or function
(estimate of SKUs)◦ type of inventory system◦ location issues (why there?)◦ transportation strategies◦ use of IS to keep supply chain running efficiently and
effectively◦ sustainability concerns. ◦ Looking for deeper thought or reflections!!!
Two pages is sufficient.
Participation & Attendance Participation & Attendance Participation is key!
◦ You learn in proportion to what you put into this class.◦ Lots of opportunities to get involved◦ Additional points for current articles (“shy
clause”)Class attendance is expected.
◦ attendance will be reflected in your participation grade.
◦ If you anticipate missing a class, I would appreciate if you would let me know about the situation in advance.
Class EtiquetteClass EtiquetteLaptop use in class is strongly
discouraged,Cell phones/Blackberries/etc. should be
turned off for class periods,Please be respectful of your classmates,
professor, and speakers/tour hosts by listening when they are talking and not creating side conversations.
If you chose to be on the laptop or miss part of class; this will affect your participation grade.
Textbook Textbook Text: Food Supply Chain Management: Economic, Social and Environmental Perspectives (Pullman, M. and Z. Wu, 2011: Routledge ISBN-10: 0415885884 )
Available through Amazon $60-$72 paperback or PSU Bookstore
Required MaterialsRequired Materials Course packet available at
◦ Clean Copy, 1704 SW Broadway Other Readings on the Mellie Pullman course site
(under PSU/ SBA /Supply Chain Management)◦ Reaping What You Sow?
◦ Out in the Sort (John McPhee in New Yorker, April 18, 2005)
◦ Ocado: An Alternative Way to Bridge the Last Mile in Grocery Home Delivery
◦ Ocado spreadsheets: Windows.xls and Nowindow.xls
◦ Portland Roasting Company
◦ Burgerville
◦ Moving Food Along the Value Chain: Innovations in Regional Food Distribution (USDA, 2012)
Other readings include websites and material handed out in class.
Team Presentation and Team Presentation and Research ProjectResearch ProjectForm a 3 person before the end of
class next week (see syllabus)We will discuss the project next week.Team Presentations (15 minutes +
Q&A)◦ Oct 30 or Nov 20
Team Final Research Paper (due Dec 4)
What I will provideWhat I will provideClass Handouts of lecture slides
(also provided on course site).Overview of what is expected
that day and next class periodAdditional readingsEmail support Office hours and
additional help as required.