The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 9 Issue 1

Strategic Sourcing

Matthew G. Anderson, Paul B. Katz

Procurement is playing an increasingly important role in helping major corporations achieve their savings and profitability objectives. What companies buy has been increasing in…

Avoiding Supply Chain Management Failure: Lessons from Business Process Re‐engineering

Rachel Burgess

Business Process Re‐engineering (BPR) appears to have had its 15 minutes of fame and is now viewed by many managers as an unqualified failure. It is important that managers…

Value Stream Management

Peter Hines, Nick Rich, John Bicheno, David Brunt, David Taylor, Chris Butterworth, James Sullivan

Value Stream Management is a new strategic and operational approach to the data capture, analysis, planning and implementation of effective change within the core cross‐functional…

Chaos Theory: Implications for Supply Chain Management

Richard D. Wilding

Since the late 1950's it has been recognized that the systems used internally within supply chains can lead to oscillations in demand and inventory as orders pass through the…

Logistics Performance Measurement and Greening Supply Chains: Diverging Mindsets

Kristie McIntyre, Hugh A. Smith, Alex Henham, John Pretlove

Although there has been considerable effort placed on measuring supply chains in order to assess their performance, these techniques have been found to be time and cost focused…

The Cost‐to‐Serve Method

Alan Braithwaite, Edouard Samakh

Integrating business processes across functions is at the heart of logistics and supply chain management. The fundamentals of compressing time across the chain are well…

Retail Logistics in France: The Coming of Vertical Disintegration

Gilles Paché

Since the end of the 1980s, logistics in French mass distribution has undergone a progressive vertical disintegration, with contractors taking a greater role in physical…

Reconfiguring the Supply Chain to Implement Postponed Manufacturing

Remko I. Van Hoek

It is expected that, as the next step in the development of distribution channels, companies will decentralize their final manufacturing into their distribution centers. It has…

Rolling Back the Frontiers: The Customs Clearance Revolution

Ton Appeals, Henry Struye de Swielande

As far as most people are concerned, customs clearance is not a term that is likely to excite enthusiasm. For some, customs clearance represents tedious border checks, irritating…