Agribusiness Logistics - Department of Agricultural Economics

Class notes are available on the web for most class sessions. You are expected todownload and study the notes before each lecture.Recommended/OptionalText: Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, 2 nd ed.Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl, Prentice Hall, 2004Website for class: http://public.online.ksu.edu/(If you have not entered this website before, you will be prompted to create you webaccount.)Once you have entered the website, click on AGEC 632. Available are courseinformation, course notes, answers to quizzes and assignments and your grades byassignment.Class Procedures:1. Class will be a combination of lecture and discussion. You are expected to enterinto the class dialog and learning process.2. There will be five quizzes, homework and web assignments including groupassignments, one midterm exam and a final exam.3. Assignments are due at the beginning of the class period specified on theassignment. Anything turned in after that deadline and before the start of the nextclass period will have an automatic 10 percent deduction of the points possible onthat assignment. Any assignment handed in after that will receive zero credit. Ifyou will not be in class on the day an assignment is due or you have other reasonsfor delaying, please visit with me in advance of the due date concerning yourassignment.4. No memory calculators, nor PDAs, nor cell phones, nor laptop computers may beused during quizzes or exams. If you need a calculator, bring a simple one withno memory or storage functions.Class Schedule (Shown on page 4.)Grading and Grading ScaleYour course grade will be based on points earned in the course as a percentage of totalpossible points. Possible points for the course are as follows:Quizzes (top 4 scores) 80Assignments andTeam projects 270Exam 1 100Exam 2 100Final Exam 150Total 700Grading Scale90-100% A80-90% B70-80% C60-70% D