Category Archives: Logistics

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

Posted on November 21, 2011 by | 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.

Gyöngyi

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

Now: DSI

Posted on November 21, 2011 by | 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.

Gyöngyi

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

Logistics luminaries

Posted on October 5, 2011 by | 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?

Gyöngyi

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

New logistics song: Mr. Logistics

Posted on September 7, 2011 by | 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.

Gyöngyi

 

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Keeping alert! with latest research results

Posted on August 24, 2011 by | 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).

Gyöngyi

*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

And the winner is…

Posted on August 12, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Not sure yet. But you can apply to become one :-)

The 2011 Emerald/EMFD doctoral disseration awards are once again up for grabs, deadline Oct 1, 2011. Two of them should be of interest to SCM researchers, with
- IJPDLM sponsoring one in “logistics and supply chain management”, and
- IJOPM another in “operations and production management”.
Other awards in this category include
- IIE’s Pritsker doctoral dissertation award (DL Dec 1, 2011)
- CILT UK’s James Cooper Memorial Cup (DL usually in May but for UK&Ireland students only),
- CSCMP’s doctoral dissertation award (DL also in May)
- and other organisations give similar awards, e.g. DSI,

There are also awards for (doctoral) dissertation proposals, e.g. SMRC’s dissertation proposal award (deadline usually in August), and even some of POMS’s subgroups have similar awards.

There are also scholarships and awards for logistics students on bachelors and masters levels, e.g. through SOLE’s logistics scholarship competition (next deadline should be May 15, 2012). CILT UK gives awards to undergraduate (bachelor or masters) dissertations as well but then again only to students of member universities. Similar awards are given in many other countries, check out your own associations.

Gyöngyi

PS. Again, this is not an exhaustive list, feel free to post other links to awards and their application deadlines in the comments.

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Recent ISI ratings of logistics / SCM journals – including new ones for JBL, IJPDLM, IJLRA

Posted on August 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Quite a few logistics and SCM journals got their first ever ISI rating* recently, including JBL, IJPDLM, IJLRA etc. Others are still in the queue and will probably get their first rate next year. But here is a list of some that already have a rating:

Let’s start with the “newbies” on the list – NB! the ratings are quite impressive and compare rather well to the “oldies”:

JBL: 3.905
IJPDLM: 2.617
IJLRA (IJoL): 0.558

And here are some others (in alphabetical order), with the 5-year rates in brackets if available:

Dec.Sci (DSJ): 2.233 (3.937)
EJOR: 2.158 (2.512)
IJOPM: 1.812 (2.792)
IJPE: 1.988 (2.411)
IJPR: 1.033 (1.469)
Interfaces: 0.826 (1.115)
JOM: 5.093 (6.029)
MS (ManSci): 2.221 (3.966)
Omega: 3.467 (3.733)
POM: 1.851 (3.147)
SCMIJ (SCM): 2.473 (3.427)
TJ: 2.348 (2.853)
TRE: 1.954 (2.516)

Ok, some disclaimers: This doesn’t include all MS/OR journals but the highest rate I found among those (so far) was MIS Quarterly with 5.041 (9.821). I may also just have missed some journals. So feel free to add them and their rates in the comments section!

Also, rates depend on whether journals that actually cite a journal are captured by the ranking system, how many numbers (and articles) a year a journal publishes etc.  Anyhow, this is it for now.

Gyöngyi

*abbreviations as follows: ISI rate = Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge rate from their Journal Citation Report; JBL = Journal of Business Logistics, IJPDLM = International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, IJLRA (IJoL) = International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. The rest can be found through the links.

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Posted in Academic journals, Journal ranking, Logistics, Operations management, Supply Chain Management

Gerontology meets transportation research

Posted on June 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

…at a conference on “aging, mobility and quality of life“. Couldn’t be more timely with all the discussion about ageing populations in quite some parts of the Northern hemisphere. Here in Finland the debate goes as far as to question our standard of living in the future due to population ageing. Somewhat related to such population trends (and the mainstream cluster discourse), Nikodemus Solitander just questioned why Finland would want to attract more knowledge workers given its overeducated population where one cannot find enough plumbers, construction workers, bus drivers and cashiers…

But back to transportation research, the conference reminds of some of the gender projects in transportation, e.g. of the World Bank, the European Commission, UNEP, ADB, IFRTD and alls sorts of other lovely acronym organisations. There is even a community of practice for people working in this field. Not as if these problems would have been resolved – far from it! – but it is time to take on also age discrimination as well as different mobility patterns on the research agenda.

Gyöngyi

 

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Posted in Call for papers, Logistics, Transport geography

Literature review made easy

Posted on April 7, 2011 by | 1 Comment

There are lots of literature reviews and conceptual papers out there so this is not the thing. This “ListAssist” is making the start easier listing key articles and book chapters in particular areas denoting their content but also their methods. There are three within the area of “operations and logistics management”: logistics and supply chain management, humanitarian logistics, and sustainable technology management. A good start making research – and teaching – somewhat easier.

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic publications, Humanitarian supply chains, Logistics, Operations management, Research & Methodology, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability

We love logistics

Posted on December 7, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Upon discovering that logistics can also be an artist (with fitting song themes such as “warehouse”), “we love logistics” also became a song title. Never mind the commercial, I just love the song :-)

Gyöngyi

PS. kudos to Fiona

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