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...

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...

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...

Today's competitive and research realities are changing. That is, the easy questions have been answered and the easy research has been done. We therefore need to reevaluate our approach to research so that we can help decision makers resolve tomorrow's challenges. Specifically, to provide...

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...

In recent months, we have participated in various discussions on the future of logistics and supply chain management. As the newest business discipline, it is not surprising that SCM is going through growing pains and seeking to chart its future course and define a meaningful destiny....

The Logistics-Supply Chain Divide is an artificial divide. Research in these disciplines is interdependent and develops and tests theory that leads to cost reductions, service improvements and ultimately improves the quality of life for people around the world. We articulate the value...

With the assistance of 12 guest editors, the Journal of Business Logistics (JBL) has initiated a sequence of special topics forums (STFs) intended to stimulate research on themes that are both fundamental and timely. In an attempt to complement the quality and depth of the impact of research...

In this article we test the value proposition hypothesis of supply chain management (SCM) by examining survey results of 570 US managers. First, we find that large firms use SCM initiatives significantly more than small firms. Second, in univariate and multivariate tests, we find that SCM leads...

The influence of quality on customer perceptions and thereby consumption behavior has led some analysts to call quality the single most important factor for long‐term competitive success. It is not surprising then that almost everyone agrees that quality is vital and that every company needs...