Instructor:
Meeting Time:
Thomas J. Goldsby, Ph.D.
Meeting Place:
M, W; 1:15 – 2:45 p.m.
Gerlach Hall 355
Office Location: Fisher 536
Phone: 247-4261
E-mail:
Office Hours: goldsby.2@osu.edu
Monday & Wednesday, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Other times by appointment
Course website: A course site is located on the OSU Carmen system.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Develop an understanding of key drivers of logistics performance and their inter-relationships with strategy and other functional areas. Focus on developing analytic, problem-solving, and cost trade-off management skills.
COURSE OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE:
The course is designed to give you:
1) An understanding of the basic concepts and techniques important to analyzing business logistics problems;
2) A thorough presentation of how the various activities important to logistics are related to each other;
3) An appreciation of the role of logistics and its relationship to other functional areas of business responsibility within a single firm as well as across multiple firms; and
4) An exposure to management and control techniques in logistics.

PREQUISITES: Enrollment in MBA or MBLE.
TEXTBOOK: Bowersox, Closs, Cooper, and Bowersox, Supply Chain Logistics
Management , 4 th
ed. (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2013); ISBN 978-0-07-
802405-4
GRADING :
Supplementary case studies will be posted to Carmen.
Components
Mid-term Exam
Written Exercise
Final Exam
Participation
Total
Points % of Total
100
50
120
30
33%
17%
40%
10%
300 100%
Final Grade Scale
276 – 300 points ….. A
270 – 275 …………. A-
264 – 269 …………. B+
246 – 263 …………. B
240 – 245 …………. B-
234 – 239 …………. C+
216 – 233 …………. C
210 – 215 …………. C-
204 – 209 …………. D+
186 – 203 …………. D
180 – 185 …………. D-
179 & below ……… E
The Fisher College Honor Code and the University Academic Misconduct Policy are strictly enforced. Please familiarize yourself with both. A useful description of academic misconduct is available at: http://oaa.osu.edu/coam.html
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WRITTEN EXERCISE:
Your term paper for this course requires that you read a work of non-fiction, preferably a
“business” book and provide a report on the book. The report should not merely summarize the book’s premise, but rather integrate the book’s premise and primary propositions with the coursework of ML 7380 . That is, how does the book relate to our course, and what might an understanding of logistics management lend to the analysis of the book? You are free to determine the structure of the paper though it is likely to include a very brief summary of the book’s purpose or key message, a brief description of the logic or method(s) employed, and an in-depth discussion of how the book and its subject matter relate to our course. Only one report should be presented on a given book. Therefore, one must reserve a selected title and this is accomplished on a first-come, first-serve basis. Papers are to be no longer than six pages in text length, with one-inch top, bottom, and side margins and 12-point font.
Additional pages may be included for tables, figures, references, and such. Book reports are due on April 18 . Submit your paper to the dropbox in Carmen.

We will cover the topics in the following order. Announcements will be made in class should the topics or order of topics change.
Date Day Topic Title
Feb. 26 W Introduction to the Course & The Work of
Logistics
Mar. 3
Mar. 5
M Introduction (continued) & Customer
Relationship Management
W Customer Relationship Management
Assignment
BCCB, Ch. 2
BCCB, Chs. 2 - 3
BCCB, Ch. 3
Mar. 10
- 12
M, W No Class – Spring Break
Mar. 17 M Procurement and Collaboration
Mar. 19 W Inventory Management
Guest speaker, Mr. Art Van Bodegraven, VB&A
Mar. 24 M Midterm Exam
Mar. 26 W Inventory Management
Mar. 31 M Inventory Management
Guest speaker, Mr. Harry Haney, Kraft Foods
Apr. 2 W Transportation
Apr. 7
Apr. 9
M Transportation (continued)
W Warehousing, Packaging & Handling
Apr. 14 M Warehousing, Packaging & Handling
Apr. 16 W Global Supply Chains & Logistics
BCCB, Chs. 4, 14
BCCB, Ch. 7
BCCB, Ch. 7
BCCB, Ch. 7
BCCB, Ch. 8
BCCB, Ch. 8
BCCB, Chs. 9, 10
BCCB, Chs. 9, 10
BCCB, Ch. 11
Book reports due April 18
BCCB, Ch. 15 Apr. 21 M Performance Measurement
Final Exam Date: Monday, April 28, 2:00 – 3:45pm