Agroverslo vadyba ir tiekimo grandinių valdymas (ABM)

Dalyko studijų rezultatai

1. Master students obtain profound knowledge on developing operational management in agri-food business sector. Knowledge about the key objective of supply chain management - providing best value to the customer by measuring, planning and managing all the links in the chain.
2. Master students are able to justifiably explain and discuss the focusing and development direction for supply chain management for agrifood business.
3. Identify planning, organizing and distributing management points for different fields of agribusiness. Define main responsibilities in operational and supply chain management.
4. To be able to independently formulate and critically analyse problems in the field of operations and supply-chain management in agribusiness.
5. To strengthen formulation and understanding about the design and operation of the entire chain from the raw material to delivery of the final product to the customer.
6. Master students are able to define and integrate several elements for supply chain planning, organizing and motivating to be effective.
7. Justify and approbate operational management research methodology for a strategy of logistics and supply chain organization in agribusiness enterprises.
8. Master students are able to justifiably explain supply chain management strategy (schematic and with data justifiable) for competitive agrifood business.
9. Identify global aims in agribusinesses and problematic aspects for achieving the strategic aims.
10. Master students are able to use ethical consequences to using practical and unpublished business information. Make the consequent references to used published research works.

Dalyko turinys

1. Operations Management and Operations Performance.
2. Logistics and the Supply Chain.
3. Process design- shaping the networks of operations that supply products and services in Agribusiness field.
4. Operations Management and process technology.
5. Innovation and design in products and services - “from field to table” including the flows.
6. Analysis of Supply Chains.
7. Agribusiness Supply Chain network processes.
8. Value and logistics costs- planning and managing.
9. Managing the Supply Chain flows.
10. Managing Agribusiness Supply Chain internationally.
11. Supply chain planning and control.
12. Enterprise resource planning (ERP).
13. Agribusiness operations and supply chain integration, cooperation and networking.
14. Purchasing and supply relationships.
15. Operations and Supply Chain Strategies in Agribusiness.

Dalyko studijos valandomis

Lectures 35 hours
Practicums 25 hours
Self-study 140 hours
Total 200 hours

Studijų rezultatų vertinimas

Test about theoretical concepts of Operation Management, Logictics and Supply Chain – 10%
Practical work, analysis of Supply Chains – 10%
Practical calculations and analysis of product strategies – 20%
Complited and submitted individual research paper – 20%
Examination – 40%

Literatūra

Required reading:
1. S. Dani, Food supply chain management and logistics : from farm to fork. London ; Philadelphia : Kogan Page, 2015., 260 p.
2. C.Cordon, The Value chain shift : seven future challenges facing top executives.Switzerland : IMD, 2014.
3. D.Walters, Operations strategy : a value chain approach. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.,390 p.
4. A. Greasley,Operations management . Chichester, England : John Wiley & Sons, 2010.,562 p.
5. Safety in the agri-food chain / edited by P.A. Luning, F. Devlieghere, R. Verhé. Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2007.,684 p.
6. King R., Hand. M., Gómez M. Growing Local : Case Studies on Local Food Supply Chains. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. 2014 ebook.
Recommended reading:
1. W.D. Seitz,Economics of resources, agriculture, and food .New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.,477 p.
2. L.Simons,Changing the food game : market transformation strategies for sustainable agriculture.Sheffield, UK : Greenleaf Publishing, 2015.,248 p.
3. International Journal of Production and Operations Management ISSN: 0144-3577.
4. Journal of Supply Management ISSN: 1478-4092.
5. International Journal of Logistics Management ISSN: 0957-4093.
6. Journal of Agricultural Economics ISSN 1477-9552.