The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 12 Issue 2

Supply Chain Management under the Threat of International Terrorism

Yossi Sheffi

On the morning of September 11th, 2001, the United States and the Western world entered into a new era ‐ one in which large scale terrorist acts are to be expected. The impacts of…

The Supply Chain Management Processes

Keely L. Croxton, Sebastián J. García‐Dastugue, Douglas M. Lambert, Dale S. Rogers

Increasingly, supply chain management is being recognized as the management of key business processes across the network of organizations that comprise the supply chain. While…

The Scope and Span of Supply Chain Management

Michael C. Mejza, Joel D. Wisner

Studies on supply chain management suggest that the scope of business processes being coordinated across supply chains is broad. However, little empirical evidence exists that…

Relationship Management in the Supply Chain

Martin Hingley

In this paper, the focus is on relationship management and its implications for Small‐Medium Enterprise suppliers (SMEs). Specific insights are provided into retailer‐supplier…

Supply Chain Design in the Food Industry

Jack G.A.J. van der Vorst, Stephan J. van Dijk, Adrie J.M. Beulens

The concepts of hybrid supply chain strategies and the decoupling point are applied to a poultry supply chain experiencing high demand uncertainty in an inflexible production…

The Supply Chain Role of Third‐Party Logistics Providers

Yemisi A. Bolumole

Outsourcing, the strategy in which organizations employ the services of external providers, has attracted growing interest. Academic and industrial attention has also focused on…