With an ever-increasing number of companies outsourcing all non-core activities and manufacturing their products in faraway countries, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has evolved into both a professional and an academic field that is growing, spreading and developing offshoots in all directions. But what is SCM really, is it just a new name for logistics or is it possible to distinguish certain perspectives? In Logistics versus Supply Chain Management: An International Survey, Paul D. Larson & Arni Halldorson (2004) set out to investigate how the experts themselves classify their own realms.

Looking for a list of conferences in supply chain and transportation-related topics? By accident, I came across 






2010/07/11 : WCTR 2010
2010/07/01 : Mitigating Supply Chain Vulnerability
2010/06/23 : Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains
2010/06/14 : How Norwegian freight carriers handle supply chain disruptions
2010/05/03 : Risk and Vulnerability in Virtual Enterprise Networks
2010/04/30 : What goes into resilience?
2010/04/29 : Pay more get more?
2010/04/24 : Volcanic ash cloud – really a surprise?