Purpose – This research seeks to better understand the supply base reduction approaches and processes utilized by organizations. Design/methodology/approach – In‐depth case studies were conducted with ten organizations that recently reduced their supply bases. These organizations...

Safety stock, safety lead time, and safety capacity are the conventional methods used to deal with operational uncertainty. With the advent of material requirements planning (MRP) systems, the rescheduling capability can be viewed as an alternative to buffer production systems against...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to bring awareness to the logistics and supply chain management (L/SCM) community’s broken review process. Design/methodology/approach The authors diagnose some of the core problems that limit the L/SCM community from disseminating high-quality research in...