The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 10 Issue 2

Using Value Reengineering to Implement Breakthrough Solutions for Customers

Jan Holmström, William E. Hoover, Eero Eloranta, Antti Vasara

It is evident from examples such as Dell that successful shapers of the supply chain really do change the game, but how can your company do it? Value reengineering is a new…

Using the Information Decoupling Point to Improve Supply Chain Performance

Rachel Mason‐Jones, Denis R. Towill

Traditionally, the decoupling point methodology has been associated with the material flow pipeline. However, to maximize improvement in supply chain dynamics, information flow is…

Toward the Virtual Supply chain: The Convergence of IT and Organization

Ashok Chandrashekar, Philip B. Schary

Any chain (or network) connected through electronic links can be considered virtual. However, a virtual supply chain often encompasses much more than electronic links. It…

Supply Chain Management: A New Challenge for Researchers and Managers in Logistics

Tage Skjoett‐Larsen

Supply Chain Management (SCM) has recently become a popular theme at management conferences and in international journals. However, the concept is not well defined and only…

Measurement and Analysis of Demand Amplification Across the Supply Chain

David H. Taylor

The Demand Amplification Effect has been well described in the literature over many years, yet it is clear that the effect is still prevalent in many supply chains. In this paper…

Virtual Teaming in the Agile Supply Chain

Jay Bal, Richard Wilding, John Gundry

This paper describes the information flows in the supply chain, and identifies knowledge and expertise as richer more capable entities for its management than data or information…

Reconstructing the Sales and Fulfillment Cycle to Create Supply Chain Differentiation

Marc J. F. Wouters, Graham J. Sharman, Hans C. Wortmann

Redesigns of supply chains have been largely limited to the differentiation of delivery processes to offer customers different delivery lead‐times on different products. In the…

The Development of Electronic Markets in Logistics

Sveinn Vidar Gudmundsson, Rita Walczuck

Logistics integration through market systems is the coming revolution in supply chain management. A number of systems have been attempted facilitating documentation exchange…