Mission Statement
The rise of global markets and increasingly virtual companies has focused both management and academic attention on competition among supply chains. The Supply Chain Management Department considers the operational challenges of managing product, information, and financial flows across organizations and customers. We seek papers that present leading-edge research on this rapidly evolving topic. The possible paper topics are vast – for example:

• Inventory management
• Supply chain coordination
• Integrated supply chain planning
• Sourcing relationships and strategy
• Supply chain design and facility location
• Organization of the supply chain function
• Managing product variety in supply chains
• Coordination of product and supply chain design
• The role of information technology in supply chain coordination
• Logistics, order fulfillment and distribution
• Supply chain risk management
• Channel management.

Manuscripts submitted for review will be expected to display both managerial relevance and scientific rigor. In particular, the problem studied must be firmly grounded in practice and must be motivated by issues faced by a firm or an industry. Research that deals with more than one entity is encouraged. Research focused on traditional operations topics such as shop floor scheduling, quality control, manufacturing flexibility will not be considered unless a compelling connection to supply chain management is provided. All research methods will be considered, but manuscripts must pass the highest standard of scientific rigor in terms of methods and analysis.

Departmental Editors
Professor M. Eric Johnson
Tuck School of Business
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03768, USA
Phone: (603) 646-0526
Fax: (603) 646-1308
m.eric.johnson@dartmouth.edu

Professor Jayashankar M. Swaminathan
Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC-27599-3490, USA
Phone: (919) 843-8341
msj@unc.edu

Professor Vinod Singhal
College of Management
Georgia Institute of Technology
800 West Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Phone: (404) 894-4908
Fax: (404) 894-6030
vinod.singhal@mgt.gatech.edu

Senior Editors
Gad Allon, Northwestern University
Kyle Cattani, Indiana University
Gregpry A. DeCroix, University of Wisconsin
Vinayak Deshpande, Purdue University
Wedad Elmaghraby, University of Maryland
Srinagesh Gavirneni, Cornell University
Steve Gilbert, University of Texas at Austin
Haresh Gurnani, University of Miami
Albert Ha, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hans Heese, Indiana University
Kevin Hendricks, Wilfrid Laurier University
Arnd Huchzermeier, WHU, Otto-Beisheim Graduate School of Management
Phil Kaminsky, University of California at Berkeley
Ann Maruchek, University of North Carolina
Doug Morrice, University of Texas at Austin
Ozalp Ozer, University of Texas at Dallas
Kumar Rajaram, UCLA
Sridhar Seshadri, University of Texas at Austin
Greys Sosic, University of Southern California
Jeff Stratman, University of Utah
Julie Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology
Terry Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
Doug Thomas, Penn State University
Ulrich Thonemann, Universität zu Köln
Beril Toktay, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Tomlin, Dartmouth College
Andy A. Tsay, Santa Clara University
Rachel Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yunzeng Wang, University of California, Riverside