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Unit Summary

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

9

Level of learning

Intermediate

Former School/College

Former School of Environment, Science and Engineering

Pre-requisites

FOR03108 - Wood Science and Utilisation

Anti-requisites

FOR00112 - Product Development and Marketing

Unit aim

Exposes students to the general principles of marketing, highlights the unique challenges renewable materials such as wood present in respect of meeting consumer expectations and explores the variety of strategies and technologies that are used to gain a competitive advantage in the market place.

Unit content

Topic 1: Introduction to the principles of marketing
Topic 2: Global wood supplies and uses of wood products
Topic 3: The character of the Australian market for wood products
Topic 4: A quick review of wood science
Topic 5: Specific challenges for wood products manufacturers
Topic 6: Preparing input/output tables to calculate net returns
Topic 7: Introduction to wood products manufacturing processes
Topic 8: Value adding strategies
Topic 9: Emerging technologies
Topic 10: Domestic and international trading conventions

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 understand and apply the general principles of marketing goods and the conventions of domestic and foreign trade.
2 recognise the general attributes of global and domestic wood products markets and how these can vary over short times.
3 describe the contrast between consumer expectations of predictability and consistency and the variability of natural materials like wood.
4 understand the concept of multiple outputs from wood manufacturing processes due to variability in the input and optimise returns from a mix of high and low value products.
5 demonstrate a capacity to prepare a cost benefit table for all process inputs/outputs, and the final net return.
6 demonstrate an understanding of the common manufacturing processes applied to wood products manufacturing and develop strategies for adding value to wood products in a given market context.
7 offer an informed opinion of the medium term outlook of the Australian wood producing and processing industries.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. understand and apply the general principles of marketing goods and the conventions of domestic and foreign trade.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  2. recognise the general attributes of global and domestic wood products markets and how these can vary over short times.
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  3. describe the contrast between consumer expectations of predictability and consistency and the variability of natural materials like wood.
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  4. understand the concept of multiple outputs from wood manufacturing processes due to variability in the input and optimise returns from a mix of high and low value products.
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA6:
  5. demonstrate a capacity to prepare a cost benefit table for all process inputs/outputs, and the final net return.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  6. demonstrate an understanding of the common manufacturing processes applied to wood products manufacturing and develop strategies for adding value to wood products in a given market context.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  7. offer an informed opinion of the medium term outlook of the Australian wood producing and processing industries.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:

Prescribed texts

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