AGB520 Supply Chain Management (PG) (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Agribusiness/Farm Management (AGFAR)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject provides an introduction to supply chain concepts and their application to business linkages in an agribusiness supply chain system. At post graduate level it examines and explores the reasons for the growing interest in supply chain management and introduces the principles of market governance with deeper engagement than at undergraduate level. It also provides an introduction to the two main elements of supply chain management: supply chain operations and supply chain relationships.
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Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: AGB520
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to accurately describe and exemplify the principles and concepts of supply chains in agribusiness;
- be able to demonstrate and explain how the major trends in the agrifood sector such as globalisation, WTO policies, food safety & health issues affect supply chain management.
- be able to use, demonstrate and show integrated engagementwithin economic theory and, other theories underlying relationships between businesses along a supply chain, especially transaction cost economics and institutional analysis;
- be able to accurately describe and critically analysedifferent types of supply chains using the price-authority-trust paradigm, and explain how different supply chains have been formed.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- concepts of supply chains illustrated by some exemplar case studies of integrated and non-integrated agribusiness supply systems;
- an overview of the mega-trends in the agrifood sector such as globalisation, WTO policies, food safety & health issues that are pertinent to the Australian and international agribusiness environment;
- supply chain economics encompassing transaction cost economics, and the study of institutions in supply systems;
- an in-depth treatment of the price-authority trust paradigm
- application of techniques for description and analysis of agribusiness supply chains.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.