Category Archives: Supply Chain Management

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

Posted on August 16, 2011 by | 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!

Gyöngyi

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

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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Posted in Logistics, Operations management, Supply Chain Management

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

First issue of JHLSCM now online

Posted on May 31, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Following up on its announcement, the first number of the brand new Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management is finally out – follow this link!

And the next one’s already in the publication process :-)

Gyöngyi

PS edited 3.6. – the journal has a free access period right now, check it out!

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Posted in Academic journals, Academic publications, Call for papers, Disaster management, humanitarian, Humanitarian supply chains, Supply chain disruption, Supply Chain Management

The ash cloud – a déjà vu

Posted on May 24, 2011 by | 2 Comments

Once again an (Icelandic) volcano eruption is disturbing air transportation. This time industry is reacting in a different way, though:

- The Brits have left it up to individual airlines to decide upon cancellations – a bit like the old “truck or snake” dilemma, I reckon, i.e. do you prefer to be hit by technical failures (in mid air when the air plane collapses) or economic ones (back on earth when the airline goes bankrupt).
- Travel agencies want to introduce an insurance against natural disasters (a bit like the home insurances that already exist in this field).
- A movie is been made through facebook on things that happened to people stranded due to the ash cloud a year ago, with people asked to write their own characters. I reckon some more may be added now :-)

Yet the situation of light cancellations, potential impacts on various industries that depend on air transportation, the impact rolling out up- and downstream in the supply chain is quite a déjà vu of April 2010… Or a “bon voyage” moment, as Matti Nykänen would say.

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Socks and sandals, Supply chain disruption

Now: CR3

Posted on April 8, 2011 by | Leave a comment

aka corporate responsibility to the cube. The conference started well with a keynote that focused on supply chain management when problematising the multinational corporation as a political actor. The SCM stream then assembled an interesting combination of very diverse types of sustainable SCM research, tackling anything from the organic banana supply chain to joint intra-sectoral approaches in auditing suppliers to corruption in development supply chains. Quite in accord with the theme of the conference (the power of responsibility) a common conclusion of the SCM stream can be summarised as “documents and standards are nice, but control of actions is needed instead”. Or, as the insight of a paper on forest certification exemplified, no forestry company has yet lost any customer because of not having ratified the certificate…

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Conferences, Corporate Social Responsibility, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability

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

New book: Humanitarian Logistics

Posted on March 30, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Fresh from the oven, it arrived today on my desk, Christopher & Tatham‘s new book on “Humanitarian Logistics: Meeting the challenge of preparing for and responding to disasters“. It collects important insights from practitioners as well as academics. A wonderful read.

Recently, another book came out as well, Pamela Steele‘s “Humanitarian Logistics: A career for women“. It is a mosaic of inspiring stories of humanitarian logisticians, mostly from the field – and complements the academic view rather well.

The next related book (called “Relief Supply Chain for Disasters: Humanitarian, aid and emergency logistics“) is on its way, coming out in May and in that coinciding with the first number of the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management.  Stay tuned :-)

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic journals, Academic publications, Book review, Disaster management, humanitarian, Humanitarian supply chains

Facility location or location around a facility?

Posted on March 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Few companies are still as location-bound as mines. Earlier it was agriculture, mining and train tracks defining where people lived. Now train tracks are pretty much out of the equation, at least according to Kotavaara et al. (in press). Agriculture became more global but the recent trend places an emphasis on local food again. So what about mining? When asked about whether they should give up mining or move the entire city, two cities in Sweden decided for the latter: Kiruna (even rerouting railway connections currently) and a part of Malmberget. Back to local… Though it is certainly preferable to move a city than to expose it to (quite predictable) mining accidents.

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Disaster management, Socks and sandals, Supply Chain Management

Knowledge sharing in operations management

Posted on February 11, 2011 by | 5 Comments

At the forefront of sharing knowledge on how to teach operations management, here are two repositories of ops mgmt syllabi: one of the Academy of Management Operations Management Division (AoM), the other of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). There is also a teaching insights page of Emerald – but it would be great to have a similar collection of SCM courses for syllabus development…

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Education & Management Development, Operations management, Supply Chain Management