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 Halldorsson (2004) set out to investigate how the experts themselves classify their own realms.

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