Food Supply Chain: Purchasing, Logistics & More

1. Food Supply Chain:Purchasing, Logistics & More Professor Mellie Pullman ISQA 458/558 Fall 2012

2. Today’s Activities • Introduction • Syllabus & Important Dates • What is Food Supply Chain Management? • Unfine Richardson Case Discussion • Photographs & Index Cards

3. You can call me: • Mellie OR • Dr. / Professor Pullman Office hours: Tuesday 4:00-5:00 PM Or by request

4. Course Format • Allowed 10 minutes break per hour of teaching • 5:40-7:10-ish • Break: 15 minutes • 7:30-9:00-ish

5. My Background • Education • 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)

6. Consulting & Community Service • Cirque Du Soleil • Hotels & Airports • Ski resorts • Mountaineering Products • Nestle • International Telecom • Non-profits • Portland Food Policy & Purchasing Councils • Food Alliance • Upstream Health

7. Other fun facts… • Teaching 20 years at schools around the US and Europe • Writing & publishing articles & books • Traveling, rock climbing, skiing, cooking and researching food producers, wineries, breweries, and restaurants.

8. 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.

9. The Classroom Mix • Lectures • Case Discussions • Breakout Discussion Groups • Guest Speakers • Field Trips

10. Intellectual Contributions

11. Assignments & Quizzes • 3 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.

12. 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.

13. Tour Paper • Prior 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.

14. 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.

15. Class Etiquette • Laptop 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.

16. 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

17. Required 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.

18. Team Presentation and Research Project • Form 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)

19. What I will provide • Class Handouts of lecture slides (also provided on course site). • Overview of what is expected that day and next class period • Additional readings • Email support • Office hours and additional help as required.