Cover -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD -- Guest editorial -- Dispersed network manufacturing: adapting SMEs to compete on the global scale -- A model for managing the transition to a global engineering network spanning industrialized and emerging economies -- A web-based logistics management system for agile supply demand network design -- Achieving agility in supply chain through simultaneous "design of" and "design for" supply chain H. Sharifi, H.S. Ismail and I. Reid The University of Liverpool Management School, Liverpool, UK -- Evolution of a worldwide production network -- Managing product variety in multinational corporation supply chains -- Diary dates -- Conference announcement.