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.