AGRIBUS 7056 - Management and Performance of Global Food Chains
North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2016
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code AGRIBUS 7056 Course Management and Performance of Global Food Chains Coordinating Unit Centre for Global Food & Resources Term Semester 2 Level Postgraduate Coursework Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 3 Contact Up to 8 hours per week Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Professor Wendy Umberger
Name: Professor Garry Griffith, PhD Role: Course Coordinator Location: TBA Telephone: 0459 806 148 Email: ggriffith@unimelb.edu.au Course Timetable
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
This course will demonstrate how economists tackle a range of business issues that are relevant to food, fibre and beverage value chains. We use microeconomic principles to do this. Microeconomics deals with how individuals and firms choose to allocate scarce resources, how markets work and how government intervention may affect market processes and firms in the market.
Economic principles and concepts are useful for analysing and comparing the pros and cons of alternate ways of organising and operating value chains. Basic theoretical tools are introduced as required to deal with the issues being discussed. In the process students are exposed to a large number of economic concepts and analytical tools, and to the “language” of economists. After learning the “basics”, these new skills are utilized to examine the potential economic impacts of different options that might be considered to improve the performance of food, fibre and beverage value chains. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to professionally communicate with other economists in a variety of situations, for example when they are working with government officials, as consultants, or as participants in these value chains.
The specific aims of this course are to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the main concepts of value chain analysis and apply relevant tools for mapping and analysing value chains;
2. Differentiate supply chain and value chain concepts;
3. Demonstrate the relationship between value chain decisions and strategic fit to overall firm success;
4. Identify and explain the drivers of value chain performance including measurement;
5. Understand the whole-of-chain concept including chain goods and chain externalities as underpinning long-term sustainable value chain development;
6. Enhance students’ conceptual and problem solving skills so they are able to analyse how value chain decisions impact agribusinesses, markets and society;
7. Increase students’ capacity to recognize and clarify value chain related problems and to anticipate opportunities available in the market;
8. Enable students to effectively identify and evaluate options for agri-business firms when faced with changing external environment, and to provide an analysis of options to inform managers and other decision-makers;
9. Improve students’ written and oral communication skills, enabling them to work effectively in an agribusiness environment.University Graduate Attributes
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Learning Resources
Required Resources
Lecture notes, reports and related materials will be posted on the course MyUni website.
There will be no alternative resources for students who are absent (e.g. taping lectures, wireless network, pod-casts, etc. will not be used).
No textbook is required for this course. However, use will be made of a particular text: Chopra, S. and Meindl, P. (2013), Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operations, (5th edition), Pearson Global Edition, New Jersey.Recommended Resources
Journal articles, newspaper articles and research centre working papers are excellent sources of information. We plan to draw on these sources extensively. Suggested readings will be provided on MyUni, and citations will be given for other related materials.
Study/essay writing/referencing guides that may be available at the Discipline/School/Faculty level. There are often particular Discipline-related conventions for the presentation of work.
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Assessment
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Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
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