The Logistics Managers Index (LMI) is a monthly metric of logistics activity in the United States, as measured by a survey of supply chain professionals. Over the past 3 years, a group of supply chain researchers, in conjunction with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), Supply Chain Quarterly, and DC Velocity have been periodically collecting, calculating, and publishing the results of LMI. In this article we present how the LMI can be utilized as a leading indicator of the economic activity in U.S.
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Zachary Rogers
Colorado State University
Dr. Zac Rogers is an Assistant Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Colorado State University. His primary research interests include the financial impact of supply chain sustainability, emerging logistics technologies, supply chain cyber security and...
Dale Rogers
Arizona State University
Dale Rogers is the ON Semiconductor Professor of Business at the Supply Chain Management department at Arizona State University. He is also the the Director of of the Frontier Economies Logistics Lab and the Co-Director of the Internet edge Supply Chain Lab ASU. He is...
Steven Carnovale, Jr.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Steven Carnovale, Ph.D. is a Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Saunders College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Prior to joining RIT, Dr. Carnovale was Nike Professor of Supply Chain Management at Portland State University. Dr...
Ron Lembke
University of Nevada, Reno
Dr. Ron Lembke, is the Chair of the Managerial Sciences Department in the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno, and an Associate Professor of Operations Management. Ron has written extensively on Reverse Logistics, and is co-author, with Dale Rogers, of...
Rudolf Leuschner
Rutgers Business School
Professor Rudolf Leuschner is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management and the Program Director for the online Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program at Rutgers Business School. He is at the creator of the Supply Chain Management MOOC...
Sengun (Shen) Yeniyurt
Rutgers University, USA
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