The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 18 Issue 3

Sales and operations planning: an exploratory study and framework

J. Andrew Grimson, David F. Pyke

The paper seeks to develop a framework for sales and operations planning (S&OP) that is based on previous literature and company interviews. It is designed to help managers…

Mexican maquiladoras: helping or hurting the US/Mexico cross‐border supply chain?

Diana L. Haytko, John L. Kent, Angela Hausman

This study aims to report on the current issues facing the maquiladora industry in Mexico and the cross‐border supply chain and to present suggestions for improving the situation…

Evaluating alternative supply chain structures for perishable products

Thomas Thron, Gábor Nagy, Niaz Wassan

This paper sets out to investigate the impact of various supply chain advancements within a perishable goods environment.

A taxonomy of highly interdependent, supply chain relationships: The use of cluster analysis

Andrew S. Humphries, John Towriss, Richard Wilding

Cluster analysis provides a statistical method whereby unknown groupings of similar attributes can be identified from a mass of data and is well‐known within marketing and a wide…

Using e‐business to enable customised logistics sustainability

Yingli Wang, Chandra S. Lalwani

This paper seeks to analyse and propose how e‐business can be coupled with different logistics strategies to achieve customized logistics sustainability (CLS).

Economic costs of firm‐level information infrastructure failures: Estimates from field studies in manufacturing supply chains

Scott Dynes, M. Eric Johnson, Eva Andrijcic, Barry Horowitz

This paper presents a method for estimating the macro‐economic cost of a firm‐level information system disruption within a supply chain.

Editorial

Martin G. Christopher, Douglas M. Lambert