Suppliers of consumer packaged goods are facing an increasingly challenging situation as they work to fulfill orders from their retail partners' distribution facilities. Traditionally these suppliers have generated forecasts of a given retailer's orders using records of that retailer's past...

Existing literature suggests that the increasing concentration in the retail industry is allowing powerful retailers to exploit their weaker suppliers, which causes the suppliers' performance to suffer. This study takes a collaborative perspective of resource dependency theory and suggests that...

Publishing in top journals is difficult. Common challenges undermine authors' attempts to explain and influence their discipline's understanding and practice. We identify and describe these roadblocks to publishing success. We also benchmark best practice in management, marketing, and supply...

The Academy's dual role is to discover and disseminate knowledge. For most of our tenure, we have focused on research's role in fulfilling this societal mandate. We continue that discussion here by calling for more “actionable” research — something that the supply chain discipline is...

The bottom of the pyramid — that is, the world's four billion consumers who live on $5 or less per day — is one of the last untapped markets for MNCs to drive revenue and profit growth. However, most MNCs have found it difficult to make money “solving the pressing needs of low-income...

Emerging technologies such as 3D printing promise to transform supply chain design and management. As these new technologies enable inventor to become entrepreneurs, new product introduction cycle times are being reduced and the variety of new products that are introduced through short channels...

Strategic systems design is essential to structuring and governing a supply chain for competitive advantage. To effectively co-create value, decision makers must manage the three rights of supply chain design: right players, right roles, and right relationships. Doing this well requires managers...