Careers in Supply Chain, Operations & Logistics -- Tracking Industry Trends
Web Sites
Operations and Supply Chain Management - Baker Library Research Guide (Harvard University)
The Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum
- Standford University's forum exploring different aspects of supply chain trends and developments.
CIO.com Supply Chain Management Research Center
- Information on:Planning & Strategy,Technology, Procurement, Case Studies and Metrics
CIO.com Enterprise Resource Planning Research Center
- Information on: Strategy, Management, Case Studies and Metrics
ITtoolbox.com
ITtoolbox provides information on how to evaluate vendor solutions, solve technical problems, research industry trends, stay current on specific segments of technology, and manage their careers.
- News & Analysis
- Research & Documents (articles, whitepapes, case studies, surveys)
- Careers & Jobs
Journals
Manufacturing.Net
Gateway to four of the key industry trade journals:
- Supply Chain Management Review
- Logistics Management
- Modern Materials Handling
- Purchasing
- Click on Newsletter link at top of page to register (free) and sign up for Email Newsletters
ABI
Inform
Excellent database for researching industry trends and hot issues
- Click on Advanced Search tab at top of page
- Type trend? or outlook and in the pull down box select Ciitation and Abstract
- In the next box, from the pull down menu select Subject. Then click on Browse Subjects link
- Type Transportation Industry and add to search
- Limit by date
List of Trade Journals (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals)
Gary Price's List of Lists
Identifies top company rankings, industry outlooks, and other "special issues" published in industry-specific journals.
- Click on link to broad industry link to view table of contents of each publication's rankings, etc.
- Industry's covered include:
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale Trade
- Retail Trade
- Transportation and Warehousing
- Examples: Electronic Business - Top Electronics Distributors; Electrical Wholesaling - Top 250 Biggest Lighting Wholesalers and Distributors; Inbound Logistics - Top 100 Logistics IT Companies
- NOTE: Not all the links will open to free content; search Factiva, Business Source Premier or ABI Inform to locate the full text of the article by specifying the publication name
Company Web Sites
Software companies and consulting firms are excellent sources of
industry trends.
- Look for links to Publications, White Papers, Case Studies, Research, Newsletters on the corporate home page
- Google - use Google's Advanced
Search to target reports
- "With all of the words": white paper
- "With the exact phrase": supply chain
- Example - Domain: accenture.com
- TIP: Use File Format option to limit results to .pdf documents
Market Research Firms
Gartner Group
- Begin searching Gartner's public web site.
- Click on Advanced Search link on upper right corner
- Check Title and Summary boxes
- Include synonyms; put quotes around phrases
- Example: erp or "enterprise resource planning"
- Note title, date, author of reports of interest
- Logon to Garner Extranet (from Databases page)
- Click on link to Author and drill down to locate specific report full text
Jupiter
Research
Especially strong in Customer Resource Management (CRM)
- eStat Database - contains data gleaned from IT market research,
industry, and government reports
- Click on Search/Browse link
- Drill down through broad categories to locate specific data points
- Search box: use synonyms; put quotes around phrases
- Example: scm or "supply chain"
- Reports - 150+ page reports that combine aggregated numbers with original analysis; includes data from IT market research, industry, and government reports
