The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 19 Issue 3

On‐shelf availability: the case of a UK grocery retailer

John Fernie, David B. Grant

On‐shelf availability (OSA) has been a major cause of concern to UK grocery retailers over the last five years and the topic has been the focus of commissioned research reports by…

e‐SCM: internet's impact on supply chain processes

Cristina Giménez, Helena R. Lourenço

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the interaction of two topics: supply chain management (SCM) and the internet. Merging these two fields is a key area of concern for…

A structural framework for closed‐loop supply chains

Joakim Wikner, Ou Tang

The concept of the customer order decoupling point (CODP) has been used in many different contexts as an important structural concept for the traditional forward supply chain. The…

Reverse logistics strategies for end‐of‐life products

Jessica Hanafi, Sami Kara, Hartmut Kaebernick

End‐of‐life (EOL) products have become a major environmental issue among countries and manufacturers. This is due to the growing number of EOL products and their hazardous…

Cost‐to‐serve measurement and customer profitability analysis

Reinaldo Guerreiro, Sérgio Rodrigues Bio, Elvira Vazquez Villamor Merschmann

This paper aims to assess the usefulness of cost‐to‐serve for customer profitability management through literature review and a case study in a food‐industry company.

A unified model of supply chain agility: the work‐design perspective

Xun Li, Chen Chung, Thomas J. Goldsby, Clyde W. Holsapple

The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical model of supply chain agility and, based on that, develop a research framework for investigating linkages between supply…

“Empirical characteristics” and “geocentricity” in “top” journals of logistics management

Göran Svensson, Bård Tronvoll, Terje Slåtten

The purpose of this paper is to describe selected journals in logistics management in terms of: the proportion of different “empirical” contributions; the proportion of national…

Themed issue on Missing scales in business logistics

Note from the publisher

Vicky Williams