Interorganisational -- supply chain management

I’m a box… and make the world go round

Posted on November 21, 2011 by gyoengyi | Leave a comment

There were some nice videos shown at the last CSCMP conference incl. a singing box that is an integrated part that makes the world go round Here’s the link to I’m a box. And to some other videos as well.

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Posted in Conferences, Logistics, Socks and sandals, Supply Chain Management

Now: DSI

Posted on November 21, 2011 by gyoengyi | Leave a comment

DSI 2011 comes with insights to the state of the art research in logistics, humanitarian logistics (even as a keynote), green SCM, and sports stats – just how to share the blame, and more interestingly, how to attribute performance shares. There is a nice young talent showcase track, though there seems to be a lack of young talent overall, at least if one considers the relatively few applicants to lots of jobs that were interviewed for at the conference.

A take-away is a call for multi-disciplinary and multi-method research, though multi-disciplinary stands for the good old OR+marketing, and multi-method for anything empirical that feeds into a model. Funny we are still trying to bridge the gaps between all sorts of different streams that feed into SCM research, seemingly not successfully.

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Posted in Conferences, Humanitarian supply chains, Logistics, Operations management, Supply Chain Management

IJPR seeking editor

Posted on October 24, 2011 by gyoengyi | Leave a comment

The International Journal of Production Research is seeking an editor to start in Jan 2012. The job description can be found here, applications are due on Nov 18, 2011.

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Posted in Academic journals, Operations management, Supply Chain Management

Logistics luminaries

Posted on October 5, 2011 by gyoengyi | 1 Comment

Jim Stock is on to a great project on the history of logistics, interviewing its luminaries. Here’s a link to the videos and their transcripts – though with the note that they cannot be downloaded. There are quite a few memorable ones among them, not the least because of getting a last glimpse of some, e.g. Tom Mentzer and Don Bowersox.

CSCMP now honoured Don Bowersox with naming its doctoral workshop after him (and what a workshop it was!). But the question remains, who is going to interview Jim Stock?

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Posted in Conferences, Logistics, Popular science, Socks and sandals

JSCM’s brand-new impact factor

Posted on October 5, 2011 by gyoengyi | Leave a comment

So the Journal of Supply Chain Management didn’t have to wait one more year after all It’s impact factor has now been announced to be an astonishing 5.853, which puts it second(!) in the category of management journals (for the case you wonder, the Academy of Management Review is first). Congrats to the editors Craig Carter & Lisa Ellram and their team!

Here’s a quote from their happy e-mail:

“We are delighted to inform you that Thomson-Reuterss updated 2010 Impact Factors were just released. We are very pleased to announce that the Journal of Supply Chain Management received an exceptional 2010 ISI Impact Factor of 5.853, placing JSCM 2nd among 144 management journals encompassed within Thomson Reuterss Social Sciences Citation Index . . . These impact factors are based on 2010 citations of articles published in 2008-2009.”

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“Women use cars for time management”

Posted on September 19, 2011 by gyoengyi | Leave a comment

… would probably sum up this article (Jain et al., in press). Here’s the twist: The caring aspect of women may lead to the choice of other transportation modes (notably more sustainable ones) otherwise but is outweighed by the question of time management related to the schooling of dependent children. In other words, if you run back and forth to school and the hobbies of your kids (who doesn’t cry out loud at people calling that “logistics”?), you stop caring about the environment. Quite an issue to take into account from a sustainable behaviour perspective. I wonder how personal carbon emission budgets would affect this though.

Gyöngyi

PS. Loved the interesting method of the article though.

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Posted in Academic publications, Carbon management, Popular science, Sustainability, Transport geography

New logistics song: Mr. Logistics

Posted on September 7, 2011 by gyoengyi | 1 Comment

Who says logisticians aren’t creative? Here is a song made by PhD students at LTH. Curtains open for “Mr. Logistics”

It was so hilarious I just had to repost it – thanks PO @ Logistikfokus.

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Posted in Logistics, PhD, Socks and sandals

Keeping alert! with latest research results

Posted on August 24, 2011 by gyoengyi | 1 Comment

Technology is our friend in receiving alerts on what has been published lately: there are alert e-mails from publishers, even RSS feeds of journals*. You can sign up for your Emerald alerts or access Elsevier theme websites, Inderscience blogs or follow any through facebook/twitter/you name it. I.e., social networks help as well, though still the most targeted are research networks that send out CFPs and TOC alerts. Many of these are specialised, with groups in e.g. SCrisk mgmt sending out their own newsletters etc. And what is new, IJPDLM‘s TOC alerts are now sent out via Elmar as well, extending SCM to marketing scholars and hopefully sparking a debate between disciplines (and avoiding reinventing the wheel).

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*Admittedly, not on this blog, but I have managed to integrate the feeds of some SCM journals on my academia.edu account

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Posted in Academic journals, Logistics, Socks and sandals, Supply Chain Management

New book: Relief Supply Chain for Disasters: Humanitarian, Aid and Emergency Logistics

Posted on August 16, 2011 by gyoengyi | 4 Comments

Out at last, a more research-oriented anthology on humanitarian logistics called “Relief Supply Chain for Disasters: Humanitarian, Aid and Emergency Logistics“.

And if the entire book isn’t necessary, one can always get just individual chapters on e.g. different types of partnerships, comparisons of different disasters, various aspects of peacekeeping activities (e.g. local sourcing in peacekeeping) etc., greening relief supply chains, or even an analysis that looks into the impact of disasters in light of the logistics performance of a country. Enjoy!

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Posted in Academic publications, Book review, Disaster management, humanitarian, Humanitarian supply chains, Supply chain disruption