GTTL 501/OpMgt 535/CEE 587
Autumn Quarter 2009
Global Logistics Management

GTTL 501 Schedule (Excel document) | OPMGT 443 Schedule (Excel document)

Course Syllabus

CONTACT INFORMATION
Professor Tom Schmitt 
Email: glennsch@u.washington.edu; Phone: 206-543-9001
Office: 303 MacKenzie; Office Hours: M/W 4:30-5:15 and by appointment
[GTTL Phone: 616-5778; Web: http://depts.washington.edu/gttl; GTTL Office: 313 Loew Hall] 

MEETING TIME/LOCATION
Wednesday 6:30-9:20 PM, Balmer Hall, Room 307

 COURSE CONTENT

GTTL 501/OPMGT 535/CEE 599is a course that deals with making and moving goods through national and international markets.  The mission is to get the right goods and services to the right place, at the right time, in the desired condition, and at the least cost.  Course topics include supply-chain management, manufacturing scheduling, capacity planning, distribution, procurement, logistics decision-support systems, facility location, transportation routing and scheduling, transportation modes, inter-modal handoffs, international trade, regulation, private-public partnerships, strategic alliances, port management and security in commerce.  The course uses lectures, videos, case discussions, readings, quantitative exercises and competitive games to explore the structure and dynamics international logistics.

ABOUT GTTL AND THE GTTL CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Education in supply-chain management, product logistics, transportation, electronic commerce, intermodalism, infrastructure improvement, partnerships and strategic alliances is essential to understanding the emerging global economy.  Since its inception in the summer of 1995, the Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics (GTTL) Program has addressed this need by training students in methods of today's global commerce and in the needs of public and private sector organizations.  GTTL draws upon the expertise of faculty from 16 UW departments. These faculty work together with experts from business and government to provide instruction.  None of the 16 departments, on its own, could have launched such a program because faculty interest in trade, transportation and logistics is often limited to only a few people in each department.  Understandably, discipline-based departments are concerned with specific topics; systems integration of GTTL-related topics has gotten very little attention.  When faculty and student interests across departments (Engineering, Communications, Economics, Environment, Geography, International Relations, Law, Marine Studies, Marketing, Operations, and others) are combined, a sizable education and outreach program results.  The GTTL model, therefore, creates a “virtual department” by networking various faculty and students through the GTTL Certificate Program. GTTL's curriculum adds value to and enhances the student’s existing graduate degree program. 

Students taking GTTL 501/OPMGT 535/CEE 599 are eligible to enter the GTTL Certificate Program.  This course is the first of two core course requirements for certification; the second is a seminar course offered in the Spring quarter.  Also required for certification are four electives, three of which may be taken in the student’s home department.  For more details on the GTTL Certificate, contact Greg Shelton at 616-5778.

REQUIRED COURSE MATERIALS

• Business Logistics/Supply Chain Management," 5th Edition, by Ronald H. Ballou (Prentice Hall, 2004), available at the University Bookstore.  Amazon.com also has books.
• GTTL 501/OPMGT 535 Course Packet, available at the University Bookstore.
  
  

SUPPLEMENTAL BOOKS

• Intermodal Freight Transportation, 4th Edition, by Gerhardt Muller, (Eno Transportation Foundation Inc, & Intermodal Association of North America, 1999) available at the University Bookstore.
• Essentials of Accounting Review, by Robert Anthony and Leslie Breitner (Prentice Hall), available at the University Bookstore. 

COURSE WORK

Grading will be as follows:

 20% Individual Class Attendance and Participation
 35% Individual Homework Exercises
 15% Exotic Extracts Game Team Performance
 15% Teammate peer evaluation of contribution
 15% Final Case Write up
100% Total

CLASS SCHEDULE AND FILE DOWNLOADS OF CLASS MATERIALS

The class schedule is available at <http://depts.washington.edu/gttl/CoreIAut09/501schedule.xls>. PowerPoint, Word and data files that are underlined in the web-based syllabus and may be downloaded simply by clicking on them in the online class schedule. (Some of these downloads are accessed directly from the GTTL website, while others are copyrighted and are available through library e-reserve.)