Below you will find a list of journals on topics that cover various aspects of supply chain management and logistics.
Supply chain management journals
International Journal of Managing Value and Supply Chains
Peer reviewed
Quarterly open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles that contribute new results in all areas of value and supply chain management. The journal provides a platform to disseminate new ideas and new research, advance theories, and propagate best practices in the management of value and supply chain management, looking across both product and service-based businesses. This will include works based in service management, logistics and distribution, operations management, process management, flow control, and customer service.
Journal of Supply Chain Management
Peer reviewed
Journal for and by supply management professionals and academicians publishing in-depth coverage and analysis of management issues, leading-edge research, long-term strategic developments, supplier relationships and applications.
Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal
Peer reviewed
The journal focuses on the integration of supply, production, distribution and sales. It is concerned with the management of the global supply chain from primary supplier to final customer. It provides in-depth research articles and company case studies that enrich both the knowledge of the discipline and the practices of supply chain management.
Supply Chain Management: An International Journal
Peer reviewed
Data Analytics
Demand forecasting
E-supply chains
Innovation
Integration and collaboration
Lean and Agile
Logistics Management
Performance drivers and measurement
Procurement
Reverse and closed loop supply chains
Risk Management
Services
Supply chain efficiency and effectiveness
Supply chain network design
Sustainability
Value chain strategies
International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications--The Journal of the Logistics Research Network
Peer reviewed
The journal covers all aspects of logistics and supply chain management including, but not limited to, the topics and areas listed below:
Inbound and outbound logistics including distribution, transport, warehousing, 3PL and 4PL
Materials Management MRP, DRP, ERP and Vendor or Co-Managed Inventories (VMI)
Modelling and simulation of logistics and supply systems and processes
Decision support tools, methods and systems such as Value Stream Mapping
Intra and inter enterprise communication tools and methods such as EDI, Internet, Extranet, RFID etc.
Approaches and methods for Collaborative, Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Efficient Consumer Response (ECR)
Procurement, e-Commerce, e-auctions
Mass Customisation, Order Postponement, Responsiveness
Supplier Development
Supply chain performance management
Collaboration and relationship management approaches in supply chains including supplier networks
Environmental and sustainability issues in logistics and supply chain including Reverse Logistics
Managing international logistical operations including outsourcing
Training and Education issues in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Research Methodologies
Case studies
International Journal of Logistics Management
Peer reviewed
Topics covered in IJLM include but are not limited to:
• Circular Economy and Sustainability (logistics and SCM aspects)
• Customer service
• Food logistics and SCM
• Integration (internal and external) and collaboration
• Inventory management
• Global logistics and SCM: Issues and changes
• Logistics and supply chain innovation
• New technology’s role and impact on logistics and SCM
• Performance measurement/management
• Retail logistics
• Supply chain costing and finance
• Supply chain strategy
• Transportation and logistics business and management
• Urban freight and logistics and last-mile logistics
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management
Peer reviewed
The scope of IJPDM covers all aspects of supply chain management and includes, but is not limited to, the topics listed below.
• Social and environmental sustainability
• Business logistics
• Omni-channel and multi-channel distribution innovations
• Customer service strategy
• Public, government, and international policy
• Implementation of supply chain processes
• Information and communication technology
• Order processing and inventory management
• Sourcing and procurement
• Sustainable production and consumption
• Risk management
• Physical and cyber security
• Marketing channels
• Global development
• Personnel recruitment and training
• Collaboration and integration
• International trade
• Network complexity
• Information and knowledge management
• Legal and financial issues
• Retailing
• Organizational and human resource development
Journal of Business Logistics
Peer reviewed
The editorial objectives of the Journal of Business Logistics are to advance knowledge and science and to stimulate greater thought and effort in the fields of logistics and supply chain management by providing readers with:
new and helpful information;
new logistics and supply chain management theory or techniques;
research generalizations about logistics and supply chain management thought and practice;
creative views and syntheses of dispersed concepts in logistics and supply chain management;
articles in subject areas which have significant current impact on thought and practice in logistics and supply chain management which present challenges for the future.
The Journal of Commerce
Not peer reviewed
Analysis of news and opinions to help you efficiently forecast trends and set an accurate course of action. Operational statistics you will need to be a well-informed leader, advisor and a more effective decision maker.
Logistics
Peer reviewed
Publishes research and scholarship in the fields of logistics and supply chain management.
Logistics and Transport Focus
Not peer reviewed
Covers all aspects of logistics and transport, the total supply-chain, as well as news about the Institute and its activities.
Logistics Management
Not peer reviewed
Serves executives, managers and other professionals in the field of logistics and supply chain management. Covers information about the role of logistics in today's business practices covering all modes of transportation services and the ever-growing impact of new technologies through the supply chain.
Logistics Research
Peer reviewed
One of the core goals of LOGISTICS RESEARCH is to underpin scientific communication and the status of relevant research both within the logistics community and in the public arena - as well as to promote the recognition and profile of this field and its research work to the "outside world", vis-à-vis the more established sciences and in countries where German and other European activities in this area have been under-publicised to date.
Material Handling & Logistics
Not peer reviewed
Magazine for managers of material handling systems in warehouses and manufacturing plants.
Naval Research Logistics: an International Journal
Peer reviewed
Naval Research Logistics is a premier peer-reviewed journal in operations research, managemen, analytics, and and general quantitative modeling, with special interest in applications covering the full spectrum of operational-level decision making.
Systems and technology journals
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
Peer reviewed
The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (ITSM) publishes peer-reviewed articles that provide innovative research ideas and application results, report significant application case studies, and raise awareness of pressing research and application challenges in all areas of intelligent transportation systems. High quality tutorials, surveys, successful implementations, technology reviews, lessons learned, policy and societal impacts, and ITS educational issues are published as well.
IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
Not peer reviewed
The IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems covers theoretical, experimental and operational aspects of electrical and electronics engineering and information technologies as applied to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), defined as those systems utilizing synergistic technologies and systems engineering concepts to develop and improve transportation systems of all kinds.
International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM)
Peer reviewed
The International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM) examines current, state-of-the-art research in the areas of SCM and the interactions, linkages, applications, and support of SCM using information systems. This journal encompasses theoretical, analytical, and empirical research, comprehensive reviews of relevant research, and case studies of effective applications in this area. The use of new technologies, methods, and techniques are emphasized.
Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
Peer reviewed
The Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems is especially interested in research that leads to improved planning and operation of the transportation system through the application of new technologies. The journal is particularly interested in research that adds to the scientific understanding of the impacts that intelligent transportation systems can have on accessibility, congestion, pollution, safety, security, noise, and energy and resource consumption.
Industrial Distribution
Not peer reviewed
Magazine covering industrial supplies marketing, management, sales, telecommunications, computers, inventory, and warehouse management.
International Journal of Lean Six Sigma
Peer reviewed
International Journal of Lean Six Sigma publishes original, empirical and review papers, case studies and theoretical frameworks or models related to Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
Peer reviewed
IJOPM articles can include:
Empirical research articles
Literature reviews, surveys and critiques of published articles
Expert opinion papers – these will always be led by outstanding scholars.
Occasional purely conceptual research – this is often a challenge for academics and the quality of content must be on par with other published articles in IJOPM in terms of rigour and potential
Occasional panel contributions – these are similar to panel sessions at the annual conferences of EurOMA on general importance and interest. Examples could include articles about the development of the operations and supply chain management field, research approaches, developments in pedagogy, emerging issues, and analysis of historical publication patterns.
Occasional notes section, which could be used for:
Methodological papers that are of interest
Discipline exploratory papers
Early research (short papers, small sample sizes, preliminary results).
Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sources
Not peer reviewed
The Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing aims to foster and lead the international debate on global operations and strategic sourcing. It provides a central, authoritative and independent forum for the critical evaluation and dissemination of research and development, applications, processes and current practices relating to sourcing strategically for products, services, competences and resources on a global scale and to designing, implementing and managing the resulting global operations.
Production and Operations Management
Peer reviewed
The mission of Production and Operations Management is to serve as the flagship research journal in operations management in manufacturing and services. The journal publishes scientific research into the problems, interest, and concerns of managers who manage product and process design, operations, and supply chains. It covers all topics in product and process design, operations, and supply chain management and welcomes papers using any research paradigm.
Transportation journals
Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management
Peer reviewed
This journal seeks to disseminate research results and to support high level learning, teaching and research in the areas of traffic and transportation (operations, policy, planning), customer service, warehousing, inventory management, procurement, packaging, materials handling, reverse logistics, demand forecasting, distribution communications and information technology.
Transportation Journal
Peer reviewed
Articles in the fields of economics, industrial and carrier management, physical distribution, general business, regulation, public policy, education and relevant subjects relating to the management of transportation and logistics.
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Peer reviewed
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review publishes informative and high quality articles drawn from across the spectrum of logistics and transportation research. Subjects include, but are not limited to:
Transport economics including cost and production functions, capacity, demand, pricing, externalities, modal studies;
Transport infrastructure and investment appraisal;
Evaluation of public policies related to transportation;
Empirical and analytical studies of logistics management practices and performance;
Logistics and operations models, especially with applications;
Logistics and supply-chain management topics.
Transportation Science
Peer reviewed
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review publishes informative and high quality articles drawn from across the spectrum of logistics and transportation research. Subjects include, but are not limited to:
Transport economics including cost and production functions, capacity, demand, pricing, externalities, modal studies;
Transport infrastructure and investment appraisal;
Evaluation of public policies related to transportation;
Empirical and analytical studies of logistics management practices and performance;
Logistics and operations models, especially with applications;
Logistics and supply-chain management topics.