The 45th Anniversary of the Journal of Supply Chain Management: Progress to Date and Continued Excellence Moving Forward (Editorial‪)‬

This issue marks the start of the 45th year of publication for the journal. At the time that we wrote this comment, we were also 18 months into our editorship and our repositioning of JSCM. We outlined the many steps associated with this repositioning in Carter, Ellram and Kaufmann (2008). Briefly, these actions have included creating world class Advisory, Associate Editor and Review Boards comprised of the best and brightest researchers in the core supply chain management arena along with related fields including marketing channels, relationship marketing, and strategic management; publishing articles from leading scholars in supply chain management as well as related disciplines including marketing strategy (Shelby Hunt), operations management (Aleda Roth, Jack Wacker and Tom Choi), strategic management (CurtGrimm) and transaction cost economics (Oliver Williamson); introducing Special Topic Forums (STFs) to help stimulate original research in developing areas of supply chain management and to help guide future research in these areas; and engaging in major marketing campaigns via our publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, and through the efforts of our editorial team. We have also promoted the expanded substantive domain of JSCM, an effort which was begun by our predecessors Phil Carter and Alvin Williams. The Journal encompasses not only purchasing, but also the multiple dimensions of supply chain management including the inbound supply chain, logistics, and physical distribution. And the Journal views behavioral, empirical research that has traditionally been conducted and published in other fields of business as being a part of this rubric of supply management, including marketing channels, alliances, and networks in the strategic management field, and the application of information systems to the management of supply chains.