School of Business TLMT 395 Walmart General Transportation

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School of Business

TLMT 395

Walmart General Transportation Manager Integration Seminar

16 Hours

Prerequisite(s): None

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Instructor Information

Course Description

Course Scope

Course Objectives

Course Delivery Method

Course Materials

Evaluation Procedures

Grading Scale

Course Outline

Policies

Academic Services

Selected Bibliography

Instructor Information

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Course Description (Catalog)

This 16 week course is only for Walmart Logistics General Transportation Managers either currently serving or those having served in the past as validated on their Career Portfolio. It is designed to integrate theories, literature and practice in the areas of public speaking; emergency and disaster incident management; human resource fundamentals and management; management communications; commercial safety; finance fundamentals; logistics management; distribution systems; and logistics management and operations. Competency based assessment of job learning demonstrates that students taking this course have inherent practical and applied knowledge in all of these areas. The course will provide coverage in gaps in theories and discipline specific literature. On successful completion of this course, students will be awarded transfer credit for the designated courses for their position in the subject areas above.

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Course Scope

These classes that a successful participant will be given are as follows:

1. COMM200 Public Speaking

2. HRMT407 Human Resource Management

3. HRMT200 Human Resource Fundamental

4. MGMT315 Management Communications

5. RTMG203 Commercial Safety


6. RTMG204 Finance Fundamentals

7. EDMG230 Emergency and Disaster Management

8. TLMT341 Logistics Management

9. TLMT353 Logistics Management and Operations

10. TLMT352 Distribution Systems

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Course Objectives

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

LO-1 Compare the use of effective public speaking skills to professional experiences within small or large group settings.

LO-2 Describe incident management and the functional areas of an incident command system in relation to the outcomes of a specific incident.

LO-3 Summarize areas in which human resource management can support the goal of creating a highperformance work system.

LO-4 Apply a variety of managerial and personnel-related skills requiring knowledge of human resource management.

LO-5 Differentiate between verbal and nonverbal managerial communications in relation to their importance in customer and employee relations.

LO-6 Evaluate commercial safety issues and how to create/maintain a safe work environment.

LO-7 Distinguish between the goals of financial management and retail financial strategy.

LO-8 Examine the basic principles of financial accounting, operational and financial leverage.

LO-9 Apply inventory management techniques and approaches in relation to network planning.

LO-10 Examine global logistics, risk management strategies, and product and supply chain design and strategies.

LO-11 Demonstrate the logistics and supply chain requirements of a product from source to customer including the integration of information technology into business processes.

LO-12 Assess the significance of economies of scale in physical distribution.

LO-13 Describe cyclical economic forces in relation to the transportation industry.

LO-14 Explain the concept of supportability analysis (SA) and the role it plays in the design of a system and development process.


LO-15 Apply various measures of logistics to include System Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs), Supply

Chain Factors, Transportation, Packaging, and Handling Factors, Warehouse and Distribution

Factors, Maintenance Factors, and System Retirement and Material Recycling/Disposal Factors.

LO-16 Describe logistics activities and how the phases of the life cycle process interrelate.

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Course Delivery Method

This TLMT 395- Walmart General Transportation Manager Integration Seminar is delivered via distance learning will enable students to complete academic work in a flexible manner, completely online. Course materials and access to an online learning management system will be made available to each student.

Online assignments are due by Sunday evening of the week as noted and include Discussion Board questions (accomplished in groups through a threaded discussion board), examination, and individual assignments submitted for review by the Faculty Member). Assigned faculty will support the students throughout this16-week course.

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Course Materials

Required Readings:

TLMT 395 Course Materials List

E-books

Mehra, P. (2012). Business communication for managers. Delhi:Pearson. Chapters 1, 3, 6, 9

Muller, M. (2011) Essentials of inventory management. New York: AMACOM.

Chapters 3, 5, 7

Stranks, J, (2012). Health and safety at work: An essential guide for managers. London: Kogan Page.

Chapters 2, 3, 4, 17

Cole, S. (2005). Applied transport economics: policy, management & decision making. Sterling, VA:

Kogan Page Chapters 1, 3

Gustafsson, K. (2009. Retailing logistics and fresh food packaging: Managing change in the supply chain.

Philadelphia, PA: Kogan Page. Chapter 3

Waters, D., (Ed.). (2010). Global logistics: new directions in supply chain management. 5th ed.

Philadelphia: Kogan Page Ltd. Chapters 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19

Armstrong, M. (2008). Strategic human resource management: A guide to action.

Philadelphia: Kogan

Page. Chapters 8, 9, 17

Articles

Croxton, K. L., & Zinn, W. (2005). Inventory considerations in network design. Journal of Business

Logistics , 26(1), 149-168.


Davis, E. E., Freedman, M., Lane, J., McCall, B., Nestoriak, N., & Park, T. (2006). Supermarket Human

Resource Practices and Competition from Mass Merchandisers. American Journal Of Agricultural

Economics , 88 (5), 1289-1295. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00947.x

Porter, M. E. (1991). Towards a dynamic theory of strategy.

Strategic Management Journal, 12 , 95.

Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/224968188?accountid=8289

William, A. S. (2010, Managing talent for maximum value. USA Today, 138, 68-70

Panaccio, A. J., & Waxin, M. F. (2010). HRM case study: Diversity management: Facilitating diversity through the recruitment, selection, and integration of diverse employees in a Quebec Bank.

Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies, 16 (4), 53-66.

Siebert, W., & Zubanov, N. (2009). Searching for the optimal level of employee turnover: A study of a large U.K. retail organization. Academy Of Management Journal , 52 (2), 294-313. doi:10.5465/AMJ.2009.37308149

Raman, A., DeHoratius, N., & Ton, Z. (2001). Execution: The missing link in retail operations. California

Management Review , 43 (3), 136-152.

Rivkin, J. (2011). A future in store.

Beverage Industry, 102 (6), 42-45. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/872202341?accountid=8289

Yeargain, J. W., & Budden, M. C. (2001). Using risk management to avoid slip and fall accidents. Business

Forum , 26 (1/2), 12-14.

Barnett, M. (2011). PRICE PERCEPTIONS: Is your pricing strategy costing you customers?

Marketing

Week, , 12-16. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/848829828?accountid=8289

Janakiraman, N., Meyer, R. J., & Morales, A. C. (2006). Spillover effects: How consumers respond to unexpected changes in price and quality. Journal Of Consumer Research , 33 (3), 361-369.

Singh, R., Sandhu, H. S., Metri, B. A., & Kaur, R. (2010). Relating organised retail supply chain management practices, competitive advantage and organisational performance. Vision

(09722629) , 14 (3), 173-190.

Malik, Y., Niemeyer, A., & Ruwadi, B. (2011). Building the supply chain of the future. Mckinsey Quarterly ,

(1), 62-71.

Kaipia, R., & Jan Holmström. (2007). Selecting the right planning approach for a product.

Supply Chain

Management, 12 (1), 3-13. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13598540710724347

White, E. C. (2010). Disaster cleanup in aisle 2. Risk Management (00355593) , 57 (5), 24.


Bennett, B. (2011). Effective emergency management: A closer look at the incident command system.

Professional Safety, 56(11), 28-37

Websites:

In addition to the required course texts the following public domain Websites are useful. Please abide by the university’s academic honesty policy when using Internet sources as well. Note web site addresses are subject to change.

Site Name

The OWL at Purdue

APA Style Homepage

Website URL/Address http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx

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Graded Assignment

Week 1 - DQ 1: Introduction

- DQ 2: Logistic Systems

- Portfolio Assignment #1

Week 2 - DQ 1: Managerial Approaches


Week 3 -DQ 1: Strategic Management


Week 4 - DQ 1: Managerial & Business Ethics

Week 5 -DQ 1: Ethics Case Study

-Portfolio Assignment # 4

Week 6 -DQ 1: Managerial Communications

Week 7 -DQ 1: Public Speaking


Week 8 - DQ 1: Managerial Issues in Logistics

Week 9 -DQ 1: Employee motivation


Week 10 - DQ 1:Consumer Behavior


Week 11 - DQ 1: Retail Strategy

Week 12 - DQ 1: Retail Strategy & Products

Portfolio Assignment # 8

Week 13 - DQ 1: Retail Strategy Process

Weight

3

5

5

3

3

3

3

5

3

3

5

3

3

5

5

3

5

3

0

3

5

3


Week 14 - DQ 1: Strategic Profit Model 3

- Portfolio Assignment # 9

Week 15 - DQ 1: Retail Merchandising Operations

5

3


Week 16 -DQ 1: Information technology- RFID & GPS

Total

7

3

100

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16 – Week Course Outline

Please see the Student Handbook to reference the University’s grading scale.

Week Topic(s)

Learning

Objective(s)

Reading(s) Assignment(s)

LO-9

1

An Overview of Logistics Management –

Inventory & Network Planning

Forum 1

Portfolio #1

LO-1

2 Effective Communication

Forum 2

Portfolio #2

LO-5

3

4

5

Management Communications & Public

Speaking

Managing Human Resources – Strategy and

System

Human Resource Management – People

Talent Management

Employee Retention & Motivation

LO-3

LO-4

Forum 3

Portfolio #3

Forum 4

Forum 5

Portfolio #4


LO-11

Forum 6

6 Logistics and Information Technology

LO-6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

Commercial Safety

Retail Financial Strategy

Logistics Management & Operations

Physical Distribution

Economic Forces and Transportation

Logistical Measures

Product Life Cycle and Logistics

Logistics- Global Strategy and Risk

Management

Incident Management – Emergency and

Disaster

LO-7, 8

LO-14

LO-12, 13

LO 12, 13

LO-14, 15

LO-16

LO-10

LO-2

Forum 7

Portfolio #5

Forum 8

Forum 9

Portfolio #6

Forum 10

Portfolio #7

Forum 11

Forum 12

Portfolio #8

Forum 13

Forum 14

Portfolio #9

Forum 15

Portfolio #10


Review of TLMT 395 Forum 16

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Policies

Please see the Student Handbook to reference all University policies. Quick links to frequently asked question about policies are listed below.

Drop/Withdrawal Policy

Plagiarism Policy

Extension Process and Policy

Disability Accommodations

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Citation and Reference Style

Attention Please: Students will follow the APA format as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework to the University. Assignments completed in a narrative essay or composition format must follow the citation style cited in the APA format.

Late Assignments

Students are expected to submit classroom assignments by the posted due date and to complete the course according to the published class schedule. As adults, students, and working professionals I understand you must manage competing demands on your time. Should you need additional time to complete an assignment please contact me before the due date so we can discuss the situation and determine an acceptable resolution. Routine submission of late assignments is unacceptable and may result in points deducted from your final course grade.

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Remember that you are in a place for the fun and excitement of learning that does not include descent to personal attacks, or student attempts to stifle the discussion of others.

· Technology Limitations: While you should feel free to explore the full-range of creative composition in your formal papers, keep e-mail layouts simple. The Educator classroom may not fully support MIME or HTML encoded messages, which means that bold face, italics, underlining, and a variety of color-coding or other visual effects will not translate in your e-mail messages.


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