Agribusiness Supply Chain Management, B.S.

The Agribusiness Supply Chain Management major (BS-ASCM) provides students with a broad yet specialized foundation in supply chain management, logistics, and transportation management. Topics covered include warehouse and inventory management; purchasing, procurement and supplier management; demand forecasting and price analysis; customer relationship management; quality management; risk management; enterprise resource management; project management; and food safety from an integrated agribusiness perspective. Students are provided with local, regional, and global perspectives on current and pressing sustainability issues and challenges within the agribusiness industry. The central core of the program focuses on the concept of “responsible business”, going beyond sustainability to address issues in terms of the five-dimensioned lens of People, Ethics, Equity, Planet and Profit. Students will focus in either an Agribusiness Business Risk & Marketing Management concentration or a Supply Chain Management and Operations concentration within the BS-ASCM degree. Students gain hands-on knowledge and skills needed to pursue careers in agribusiness management, agribusiness operations, agribusiness marketing or agribusiness supply chain management with data science and precision agriculture as the foundation.

Required Courses

Complete one of the following courses:
BIO 106 - Introduction to Plant Science Units: 4
ENVS 201 - Intro to Environmental Science Units: 4
Complete one of the following courses:
MATH 115 - Finite Mathematics Units: 3
MATH 130 - Precalculus Units: 5
MATH 150 - Calculus I Units: 4
Complete one of the following courses:
BUS 204 - Business Statistics Units: 3
STAT 100 - Introduction to Statistics Units: 3
Complete all of the following lower-division courses:
AGPS 128 - Introduction to Soil Science Units: 4
BUS 200 - Personal and Professional Responsibility in Business Units: 2
BUS 201 - Macro Economics Units: 3
BUS 202 - Micro Economics Units: 3
BUS 203 - Financial Accounting Units: 3
BUS 205 - Managerial Accounting Units: 3
BUS 206 - Business Law Units: 3
BUS 299 - Business Analytics Fundamentals Units: 3
Complete all of the following upper division courses:
AGBS 300 - Major Proseminar Units: 1
AGBS 304 - Business Communication Units: 3
AGBS 306 - Agribusiness Marketing Units: 4
AGBS 309 - Principles of Operations Management Units: 4
AGBS 310 - Sustainability and Responsible Business in Agribusiness Units: 4
BUS 300S - Business Ethics in Action Units: 3
BUS 302 - Bus Milestone Experience Units: 1
BUS 305 - Principles of Management Units: 4
BUS 307 - Finance Units: 4
BUS 308 - Information Systems for Decision Making Units: 4
AGBS 499 - Agribusiness Supply Chain Management-Senior Capstone Units: 4

Concentrations

To complete the requirements of the Agribusiness Supply Chain Management Degree, select and complete a concentration from the list below (16 units):

Agribusiness Risk and Marketing Management Concentration

Supply Chain Management and Operations Concentration

Learning Outcomes

MLO 1: Knowledge in the Major

Students will understand the terminology, concepts, theories, tools, and applications of Agribusiness Supply Chain Management.

MLO 2: Written Communication

Students will produce business writing that meets professional standards.

MLO 3: Oral Communication

Students will deliver professional presentations.

MLO 4: Critical Thinking

Students will produce a critical and integrative analysis of a business scenario including the development of alternatives and recommendations to solve the problem.

MLO 5: Quantitative Literacy

Students will analyze data using quantitative tools to support business analysis.