How a cold-chain failure became a core course
Food Systems Logistics is taught from operating records rather than textbooks — including the week the numbers went wrong.
By iSEED
FOOD301, Food Systems Logistics, is built from real operating records: routing sheets, cold-chain logs and order books from working food enterprises in the region.
The most-used week of the course is a failure. An over-ordered dairy delivery left eleven hours to move perishable stock, and students work the same problem with the same constraints: the vehicles that were available, the storage that was not, and the cost of each option.
Teaching from a record rather than a case study means students meet the parts that are genuinely hard to judge. The routing model is published in the open-access repository under CC BY.