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Write for Us: Supply Chain and Operations

The most technical desk on the Journal, and the one where a writer who has worked in the field is immediately recognizable. Standards vocabulary is expected, not decorative.

Reviewed August 2026 · The Insight Journal Editorial Team

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This desk in one box

Covers
Process, logistics, and resilience, grounded in how operations actually run.
Written for
Planners, buyers, and warehouse managers
Cost
Quoted per pitch. No published price list.
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What the Supply Chain desk publishes

In short

This desk publishes operations and supply chain writing grounded in how networks actually run: planning, sourcing, warehousing, transport, and resilience. We expect correct use of standards vocabulary such as SCOR, OTIF, and safety stock, and every claim cited to a body like CSCMP, ASCM, or BLS.

Supply chain is the desk where imprecision shows fastest. A writer who confuses a 3PL with a freight broker, or safety stock with cycle stock, loses the reader in a paragraph.

That makes it the easiest desk to pitch well if you have done the work. Describe a real mechanism accurately and the piece is most of the way to acceptance.

We are equally interested in the parts of the field that get written about least: returns, the yard, master data quality, and what happens when a planning system and a warehouse system disagree.

Who reads it

  • Planners, buyers, and warehouse managers
  • Operations leaders at manufacturers and distributors
  • People moving into supply chain from another function

Write for that reader rather than for a search engine. A draft aimed at the person in the job usually clears our checks on the first pass, because specificity and sourcing tend to arrive together.

Ten angles we would commission today

In short

These ten briefs are open right now. Pitch one directly, or use them to calibrate an idea of your own. They share one property worth copying: each names a decision the reader has to make, rather than a topic they might find interesting.

Anything at this altitude gets read properly. Anything below it gets a form reply, which serves neither of us.

  1. 01

    A SCOR process, described properly

    Plan, source, make, deliver, or return, with the handoffs and the data each stage needs.

  2. 02

    Inventory policy in practice

    Safety stock, reorder point, and service level, including the assumption each formula quietly makes.

  3. 03

    Supplier risk and dual sourcing

    What qualification really costs, and when a second source is insurance rather than overhead.

  4. 04

    Resilience after a disruption

    How networks amplify shocks, and which buffers actually absorbed one.

  5. 05

    Freight and mode selection

    Landed cost across modes, and the total cost changes hidden in a transit-time decision.

  6. 06

    Warehouse operations

    Slotting, pick paths, labor standards, and where a WMS implementation goes wrong.

  7. 07

    Demand planning and forecast error

    Forecast accuracy measurement, bias, and how consensus planning degrades a signal.

  8. 08

    Reverse logistics

    Returns processing economics, disposition decisions, and the cost most retailers underestimate.

  9. 09

    Master data and system integration

    What breaks when an ERP and a WMS disagree, and who owns the reconciliation.

  10. 10

    Careers and credentials

    What CPIM, CSCP, and CLTD cover, and how the roles differ in practice.

What this desk declines

In short

Most pitches are declined for category rather than craft. If your idea sits on this list, no amount of rewriting will move it, and we would rather you knew that before spending a day on a draft than after.

A decline usually means the piece belongs on another desk, or on the sponsored path.

  • Trend pieces about visibility or digital transformation with no mechanism in them
  • Vendor-sponsored writing about a specific platform, unless run as labeled sponsored content
  • Misused terminology, which we treat as a signal about the rest of the draft
  • Freight rate forecasts presented as fact
  • Sustainability claims with no standard or methodology named

The sourcing bar, in specifics

In short

Every non-obvious claim needs a named publisher, a year, and a link a reader can open. On this desk, the sources below cover most of what a draft will need. A figure that traces back to another blog post is not sourced, and it comes out in editing.
Cite the organization that produced the data, not the article that repeated it. Include the year.
Primary sources accepted on the Operations & Supply Chain desk
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)Definitions and the annual State of Logistics reporting.
ASCM (formerly APICS)SCOR model reference and the CPIM, CSCP, and CLTD credential syllabi.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)Occupational employment and wage data for logistics roles.
U.S. Bureau of Transportation StatisticsFreight volume, mode share, and transportation cost indices.
U.S. Census Bureau, inventories and salesManufacturing and trade inventory data.

Our full method is set out in the sourcing standard we publish against.

How placement works on the Supply Chain desk

In short

Placement here is quoted per pitch against operations & supply chain scope rather than from a price list, and the link treatment is agreed before you write. The terms, the editing process, and the link policy are the same across all six desks and are set out once, in full, in the submission standard.
Read first The standard a Supply Chain draft is edited against Rates, link treatment, editing, revisions, and what a finished draft has to contain. Wrong desk? The five desks that are not Supply Chain What each one commissions, and which reader it is written for. Paid path Sponsored Supply Chain placement For work that is promotional by design, labeled honestly and reaching the same readers.

Pitch the Supply Chain desk

Tell us the topic, the angle, and the sources you plan to cite. If it fits operations & supply chain, we reply with scope, link treatment, and a rate.

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Questions

Writing for the Supply Chain desk: common questions

How technical can a supply chain submission be?
As technical as the mechanism requires, provided the business consequence is stated. A piece can walk through a reorder point calculation as long as it says what the reader should do differently afterward.
Do I need a supply chain credential to write here?
No. Credentials are not published on the page, since everything runs under the house byline. Accurate use of the vocabulary is what signals competence to our readers.
Which bodies do you accept as sources?
CSCMP, ASCM, BLS, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and the Census Bureau cover most claims. Industry press is acceptable for events, not for statistics.
Can a logistics vendor contribute?
A vendor can write about a process or a method. A piece about the vendor platform runs as labeled sponsored content on the advertising path.
Do you take freight market commentary?
Descriptive commentary with sourced data, yes. Rate forecasts presented as certainty, no, because we cannot verify them and neither can the reader.
What length suits this desk?
Between 1,400 and 2,200 words. Process explanations need room for a table or a diagram, and both are welcome.