What has been achieved, or rather: written, during a decade of academic research in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) field? A lot, obviously, but despite the considerable number of academic contributions, the literature is still very fragmented and although several studies purport to discuss supply chain issues, most of the existing research only examines one link of the chain, or more importantly only focuses on one ingredient in the supply chain performance mix. So say Larry Giunipero, Robert E Hooker, Sacha Joseph-Matthews, Tom E Yoon and Susan Brudvig in their 2008 article on  A Decade of SCM Literature: Past, Present and Future Implications, where they investigate and categorize some 405 articles from 9 academic journals. Their findings are quite interesting.

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