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ASCM 551: Agricultural Value Chain
FreeCOURSE OVERVIEW Value chains evolve and change over time, partly in response to changes in the economic and policy environments. In this chapter, we introduce the idea of value chain “types” rather than governance and discuss how agricultural value chains can evolve from being characterized as traditional to complex. We then discuss the factors that […]Read more -
ASCM 552: Agricultural Supply Chain Risk Management
FreeCOURSE OVERVIEW Supply chain thinking encourages a system-wide view of the chain, focusing as much on the linkages between technologically separable segments as on the management of processes within those segments. An agricultural supply chain encompasses all the input supply, production, postharvest, storage, processing, marketing and distribution, food service, and consumption, including the external enabling […]Read more -
ASCM 554: Strategic Procurement Management
FreeCOURSE OVERVIEW This course is seeking to expose students to the strategic view of the procurement function in an organization within the Agricultural context. The course is designed to explain to students understanding regarding the overview of strategic procurement in the agricultural value chain, make or buy decisions either for insourcing or outsourcing of their […]Read more -
ASCM 558: Agricultural Supply Chain Analytics
FreeCOURSE OVERVIEW Supply chain analytics is the application of mathematics, statistics, predictive modelling and machine-learning (i.e., analytics) techniques to generate business insight from supply chain data such as ordering, shipment, transactional, and sensor data. This course seeks to apply several analytical techniques and processes to discover meaningful patterns and knowledge from such data. In this […]Read more -
ASCM 559: Agricultural Supply Chain Management and Innovation
FreeCOURSE OVERVIEW Innovation happens when a unique and diverse set of skills and technologies are integrated, and their synergy is used to solve problems effectively. Agricultural supply chain innovation, refers to improvements in the way that agriculture supply chains operate, and more specifically, in the way that products, information, work, and funds flow throughout supply […]Read more -
ASCM 560: Agric-food Standards, Safety & Quality Assurance
FreeCOURSE OVERVIEW This course is designed to equip students with the understanding of current food safety standards and quality assurance principles along the agri-food supply chain to create competitive advantage on both local and international markets. The focus is on standards, Safety and Quality assurance in the national and global agri-food system. The course also […]Read more -
ASCM 561: Strategic Management and Leadership in Agriculture
FreeCOURSE OVERVIEW The common usage of the term strategic is related to the concept of strategy, simply a plan of action for accomplishing a goal. One finds both broad and narrow senses of the adjective strategic. Narrowly, the term denotes operating directly against military or industrial installations of an enemy during the conduct of war […]Read more -
ASCM 562: Emerging Technologies in Agricultural Supply Chain Management
FreeCOURSE OVERVIEW Technology is impacting every aspect of our modern lives, and agriculture is no exception. Technological advancements are today integral to attaining sustainability goals in agricultural supply chains. Emerging technologies such as Satellite and GPS technologies, IoT sensors, smart systems, drones, automation, block chain, big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, to list a […]Read more