Awards & Recognition

Celebrating Excellence: Awards & Recognition

Explore CSCMP's professional and academic awards recognizing innovation, leadership, and impact across the supply chain. Each award has its own unique criteria and purpose—so please review each description carefully to learn more about eligibility, focus, and distinctions within both categories.

Professional Awards

Hall of Fame

CSCMP's Supply Chain Hall of Fame

Honors the visionaries and trailblazers whose innovations and leadership have shaped the supply chain profession and improved the world we live in.

Nominations run from Jan 5 – Feb 8, 2026.

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Distinguished Service

Distinguished Service Award

The industry’s most prestigious individual honor, recognizing significant and sustained contributions to logistics and supply chain management.

Nominations from Jan 5 – Feb 8, 2026.

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Transportation Excellence

Gail Rutkowski Transportation Excellence Award

Recognizes organizations or individuals creating long-term industry impact through excellence in transportation-related leadership and collaboration.

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Innovation

Supply Chain Innovation Award™

Recognizes teams demonstrating excellence, innovation, and measurable ROI in solving significant supply chain challenges.

Submission window: May 12 - June 5, 2026. Submit today!

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Academic Awards

Distinguished Fellows

CSCMP's Distinguished Fellows

Honors academic leaders whose contributions in research, teaching, and service to CSCMP advance collaboration and thought leadership in supply chain.

Nominations open June 2026.

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Best Paper – ARS

E. Grosvenor Plowman Award

Presented annually to the best paper accepted for presentation at the Academic Research Symposium.

Submissions open March 2026.

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Teaching

Teaching Innovation Award

Recognizes impactful pedagogy that advances supply chain instruction and student outcomes.

Submissions open March 2026.

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JBL Paper

Bernard J. LaLonde Best Paper Award

Awarded to the most valuable paper published in the Journal of Business Logistics.

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