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Supply Chain Management


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Foster Business Library Databases:

The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more information on Foster business databases, click Databases, A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index. For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access. For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.

  • Forrester Research:   Forrester Research provides access to reports and briefings on the effects of technology change on businesses, consumers, and society, and analyzes such technology areas as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications, and the Internet. To use this database, UW users must establish a personal account from a UW IP address. (Available from off-campus.)

    A search for Supply Chain Management retrieved 245 documents. Supply Chain is also one of Forrester Research's twenty-two Research Topics.

  • Gartner Research:   Under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. The Gartner Research database provides in-depth analysis and market intelligence for the information technology industry. It covers the full range of products and technologies associated with computer hardware, software, communications products, financial services, electronic business, and healthcare application software worldwide. Ten industries are covered in depth:   banking, education, energy, government, healthcare providers, insurance, investment services, manufacturing, media, and retail. Access to this database, on campus or off, requires a valid UW Net ID.

    A search for Supply Chain Management retrieved over 1,000 documents. ERP and Supply Chain Management is also one of Gartner's Research Topics.

  • Investext:   Investext contains indexing and the full text of company and industry research reports prepared by leading Wall Street firms, as well as regional and international brokerage and financial firms. All reports are in PDF format. (This database is available widely on campus and may be accessed from home via the U.W. connectivity kit or via the Libraries' proxy server.)

    A Keyword search for Supply Chain Management retrieved a list of nine reports.

  • InfoTech Trends:   InfoTech Trends indexes statistics and forecasts published in computer and telecommunication trade publications.

    An AND search for Supply Chain Management, in 2006 and 2007 publications, retrieved sixteen tables.

  • JSTOR:   This database may be found under Electronic Journals, which may be found by going to Reference Tools in the left menu, under Find It. JSTOR is a subject searchable index of 360 journals, with full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's. Among the collections of scholarly journals on this site are ones for Business and for Economics, encompassing 72 journals.

    A basic search for the phrase "Supply Chain Management" produced over four hundred articles.

  • Social Sciences Citation Index:   Included under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. This database "is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It "provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward."

    A search for Supply Chain Management produced over 1,500 references.

  • Vault Career Library:   Under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. This database provides information and guides for over 3,000 companies, 40 industries, and over fifty career paths, including over ninety career guides, as well as employer profiles, articles, and advice on careers, resumes, and cover letters; and more.

    See the downloadable Vault Career Guide to Supply Chain Management.

    Web Resources:

    Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.

    Guides:

  • Research Guides (Wharton's Lippincott Library):   This business school also offers research guides. In their E-Commerce guide, see the section for Supply Chain Management.

  • Supply Chain & Information Systems Resource Guide:   This guide from the business library at Penn State offers many resources in the field of supply chain management.

  • Pathfinders (Humber College, University of Guelph, Ontario):   This Canadian library also offers research guides. See their pathfinder on Logistics/Supply Chain Management.

    Organizations and Other Resources:

  • Business Updates:   According to Robert Berkman, "This portal collects timely headlines from online news sites and a selection of blogs via the use of RSS feed technology. Business Updates currently provides news headlines on more than a dozen popular, narrowly defined business topics as well as news about and from 15 large corporations." Among the topics covered is Supply Chain Management.

  • CIO.Com:   "CIO.com is a website for CIOs (Chief Information Officers) and other information executives. Our primary audience is made up of CIOs in the United States, although we have readers from around the world. Different versions of CIO are now published in nine other countries/geographic areas (Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, and Japan) with more planned in the coming months." See their information on Supply Chain Management.

  • Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals:   "Founded in 1963, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) is the preeminent association for individuals involved in supply chain management. CSCMP provides educational, career development, and networking opportunities to its over 9,000 members and to the entire profession." See their Resources & Publications section.

  • Cranfield University's Centre for Supply Chain Risk and Resilience:   "The Supply Chain Research Centre is one of Europe’s largest centres dedicated to research into logistics and supply chain management." See their 2002-2003 project information on Supply Chain Resilience, with a downloadable report on this research.

  • Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics Studies (University of Washington):   This University of Washington program website provides an extensive collection of links to resources and student papers on various aspects of this large topic, including supply chain management.

  • Google Supply Chain Maps:   Google Images is a good source for supply chain maps, for various commodities.

  • LogLink:   This site provides service and contacts to companies and organizations in the logistics industry. See their Supply Chain Sites page.

  • National Industrial Transportation League:   This venerable shipping trade organization, with over 1,000 members, is an advocacy group for freight transportation. They offer a lengthy list of links to other Transportation Sites.

  • The Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (Georgia Institute of Technology):   This institute is one of the major academic centers for logistics management education and research. See their Case Studies, Projects, and numerous Papers.

  • Supply Chain Council:   "The Supply-Chain Council was formed in 1996-1997 as a grass roots initiative by forward thinking individuals representing companies including AMR Research , Bayer, Compaq Computer, Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM), Procter & Gamble, Lockheed Martin, Nortel," and others. Some of the information is for members only. See the Supply Chain Management Products & Services section. See their links to Industry Publications and to Related Organizations.

  • Wikipedia:   This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic. See their entry for Supply Chain Management.

    Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

    The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.

  • The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of operations management.
    This volume offers essay definitions of operations management terms from experts in the field.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.15 .B455 1995 v. 10.

    See Supply Chain Dynamics, pages 209 to 210, and Supply Chain Management, on pages 210 to 214.

  • The encyclopedia of management.
    This one-volume covers 348 management topics, arranged alphabetically from Activity-Based Costing to Zero-Sum Game.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.15 E49 2000.

    See Supply Chain Management on pages 914 to 917.

  • Business: the ultimate resource.
    This 2,200-page single volume is "designed to offer a wide range of insights, information, and practical guidance on every aspect of management" via 2.5 million words of text from 200 contributors, with 700 illustrations and 150 maps, in seven major sections including best practice, a management library, business thinkers and management giants, a business dictionary, a world business almanac, and a guide to business sources.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .B878 2002.

    See Purchasing and Supply Chain Management on pages 2094 to 2096, for a listing of selected books, journals, websites and organizations associated with this topic.

  • Adapt or die: transforming your supply chain into an adaptive business network.
    This new book covers the four steps necessary to transforming old supply chain models to new forms of business networking.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD39.5 .C57 2003.

    See the index for names of companies profiled in this book.

  • The encyclopedia of emerging industries.
    This encyclopedia profiles 115 emerging businesses and industries, in an alphabetic arrangement, with four to eight-page descriptions of each new industry or business.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E528 2001.

    See Logistics Outsourcing Services on pages 403 to 406.

  • Plunkett's transportation, supply chain & logistics industry almanac
    Profiles of 500 companies in these industries, as well as statistics and trend information.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HE9 .U5 .P586 2005.

  • Encyclopedia of production and manufacturing management.
    This one volume work offers about one hundred essays on important concepts and practices, with another 1000 shorter pieces on concepts, practices, and principles.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: TS9 .E53 2000.

    See Supply Chain Management: Competing Through Integration on pages 755 to 760.

  • How products are made.
    This multi-volume illustrated set explains in essay form, in simple terms, how more than 700 products are produced.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: TS146 .H67

    See the index in the back of the latest volume (volume seven, at present) for an alphabetical listing of products in the entire set.

    Foster Business Library Books:

    The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.

    To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.

    If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.

    The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

    A keyword search for Supply Chain, limited to the Foster Business Library (to restrict the search to business-related titles), retrieved over sixty records, including:

    Applicable subject terms, gleaned from these keyword searches, include:

    Foster Business Library Periodicals:

    Foster Business Library Articles:

    Articles in academic journals, magazines, trade periodicals, and newspapers are one of the best sources for any kind of research. While the Foster Business Library offers a large periodicals print collection, comprising over 800 titles, articles are most easily accessed online, 24/7, in such fulltext article databases as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases are available in the library or from off-campus, and provide access to over 10,000 periodicals and millions of articles.

    Library access to most ProQuest databases will terminate at the end of spring quarter 2008, except for ProQuest NewsStand, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Historical New York Times, and the Historical Wall Street Journal. For more about this change, see UW Libraries Providing New Databases. After this change, comprehensive article searches should be performed in EBSCO Business Source Premier, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest NewsStand. Also, after this change, links to the articles below will be broken.

    ProQuest Databases:

    This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide.

    Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article.

    As an example, a search for Supply Chain Management retrieved over 50,000 articles, including over 4,000 articles in scholarly journals, over 1,000 articles in magazines, over 14,000 articles in trade publications, and over 4,700 articles in newspapers.

    A more specific phrase search, for "Supply Chain Contracts," for instance, produced only forty articles in this database. An alternative subject search for SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Contracts) produced over 220 articles.

    Searches can be narrowed by searching by subject in this database, and by combining subject searches. The subject term most used in this database for Supply Chain Management is Supply Chains; a search for SUB(Supply Chains) produced over 15,000 articles. Top subjects combined with SUB(Supply Chains) include:

    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Studies)   (over 2,700 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Logistics)   (over 2,200 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Inventory Management)   (over 1,200 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Electronic Commerce)   (over 1,100 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Software)   (over 780 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Vendor Supplier Relations)   (over 700 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Purchasing)   (over 660 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Case Studies)   (over 630 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Radio Frequency Identification)   (over 590 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Information Technology)   (over 570 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Manufacturers)   (over 550 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Software Industry)   (over 540 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Electronics Industry)   (over 530 articles)
    • SUB(Supply Chains) and SUB(Automobile Industry)   (over 520 articles)

    It's also possible to combine subject terms and words, as in SUB(Supply Chains) and Resiliency, for example, which produced almost a dozen articles.

    Examples of articles from these searches include:

    Help:

    5 December 2002; updated 11 December 2007.   Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, stevens@u.washington.edu