Every year at its annual conference, CSCMP recognizes individuals and organizations that are helping to push the supply chain discipline to new heights. The following are some of the recognitions given out this year.
- The 2018 Distinguished Service Award was presented to Dr. John Gattorna, executive chairman of advisory firm Gattorna Alignment Pty Ltd. and adjunct professor at University of Technology Sydney's business school in Sydney, Australia.
- Supply Chain Hall of Fame received three new inductees: Gattorna; Michael Dell, chief executive officer and chairman of Dell Technologies; Peter F. Drucker, management consultant, educator, and author; and the late George Stephenson, a railroad pioneer from the late 18th century to the early 19th century.
- Dr. Tobias Kosmol of the Otto Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz, Germany, won the Doctoral Dissertation Award for his paper "Supplier Quality Management in Emerging Markets: The Interplay of Behavior and Cognition."
- The Bernard J. La Londe Best Paper Award was given to Craig R. Carter, Lutz Kaufmann, and Claudia M. Wagner for "Reconceptualizing Intuition in Supply Chain Management."
- Dr. Remko van Hoek of the University of Arkansas, Dr. Laura Briou of Florida Gulf Coast University, and Dr. Stanley Fawcett of Weber State University received the E. Grosvenor Plowman Award for their research paper "Don't Build a Bridge to Nowhere: Triangulating Gaps in the Path to Successful Supplier Enabled Innovation."
