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.

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.

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.

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:

• Handbook of global supply chain management   (2007)
• Supply chain management: strategy, planning, and operation   (2007)
• Supply chain risk management: vulnerability and resilience in logistics   (2007)
• International logistics and supply chain outsourcing   (2007)
• Managing the global supply chain   (2007)
• Interactive models for operations and supply chain management   (2007)
• Global logistics: new directions in supply chain management   (2007)
• Building supply chain excellence in emerging economies   (2007)
• Purchasing and supply management: with 50 supply chain cases   (2006)
• Lean distribution: applying lean manufacturing to distribution, logistics, and supply chain   (2006)
• Successful strategies in supply chain management   (2005)
• Supply chain project management: a structured collaborative and measurable approach   (2004)

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

• Business Logistics
• Physical Distribution of Goods--Management
• Marketing Channels--Management
• Delivery of Goods--Management
• Industrial Procurement
• Materials Management

Foster Business Library Periodicals:

The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of about 800 periodicals, arranged alphabetically by title at the west end of the library. A list of the titles in this collection is available on the Foster homepage under Research; look for Periodical Lists and click on Periodicals in the Foster Business Library.

The Foster Business Library Periodical Collection consists of over 800 magazines, newspapers and journals, arranged alphabetically by title, and located in the northwest corner of the ground floor of the library. Click here for a list of the titles in this collection.

Supply chain-related titles in this collection include:

• The international journal of purchasing and materials management   (1991-1998)
  
• The journal of supply chain management   (1999-)

The UW Libraries also subscribe to electronic journals, some of them in the area of business and economics. Access to these electronic journals is limited to authenticated UW users. For a list of these journals, click here.

Supply chain-related titles in this collection include:

• Supply Chain Management
• Supply Management

Foster Business Library Articles:

In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to over 100 million full text articles in over 10,000 periodicals through its full text article databases such as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.

All four of these databases are available from any computer on the campus network as well as from home (via the UW Connectivity Kit or the Libraries' Off-Campus Access link, using your UW Net ID and password). The easiest of these databases to use is ProQuest Databases. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, see Database Access. For more information about business databases, see the research guide entitled Databases, A to Z.

• 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. Article full text is often available in several formats, including text, text plus graphics, and PDF. This database also offers a very useful subject structure, to narrow search results, as well as article citation information.

  Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, see About ProQuest Databases.

  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:

  • "America's Most Logistics Friendly Cities"   (Logistics Today. Cleveland: Nov 2007. Vol. 48, Iss. 11;  pg. 34, 7 pgs)
  • "Silent Hands Behind the iPhone"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jul 18, 2007.  pg. C.1)
  • "What's in iPhone? Techies sift clues"   (Orlando Sentinel. Orlando, Fla.: Jul 3, 2007. pg. C.3)
  • "How to Avoid the Risk Management Pitfalls"   (Supply Chain Management Review. New York: Jul 2007. Vol. 11, Iss. 5;  pg. 34)
  • "An iPod Has Global Value. Ask the (Many) Countries That Make It"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jun 28, 2007.  pg. C)
  • "China Makes, the World Takes"   (The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Jul/Aug 2007. Vol. 300, Iss. 1; pg. 48, 16 pgs)
  • "Mercedes goal: More flexible and efficient supply chain"   (Automotive News. Detroit: May 14, 2007. Vol. 81, Iss. 6255;  pg. 46B, 2 pgs)
  • "The Changing Chain"   (Circuits Assembly. San Francisco: Apr 2007. Vol. 18, Iss. 4;  pg. 22, 1 pgs)
  • "The new rules for global supply chain management"   (Manufacturing Business Technology. Highlands Ranch: Apr 2007. Vol. 25, Iss. 4;  pg. 22)
  • "Six Sigma Approach to Quality Assurance in Global Supply Chains: A Study of United States Automakers"   (International Journal of Management. Poole: Mar 2007. Vol. 24, Iss. 1;  pg. 101, 7 pgs)
  • "Supply-chain upgrade"   (Tooling & Production. Solon: Mar 2007. Vol. 73, Iss. 3;  pg. 12, 1 pgs)
  • "Disaster Management: Private Lessons for the Public Sector"   (Supply Chain Management Review. New York: Jan 2007. Vol. 11, Iss. 1;  pg. 50)
  • "Uncovering the True Causes of Automotive Supply Chain Failure"   (Supply Chain Europe. London: Nov/Dec 2006. Vol. 15, Iss. 5;  pg. 32, 3 pgs)
  • "Why Too Much Of A Good Thing is Bad "   (World Trade. Troy: Nov 2006. Vol. 19, Iss. 11;  pg. 7, 1 pgs)
  • "Is China Always the Answer?"   (World Trade. Troy: Jul 2006. Vol. 19, Iss. 7;  pg. 44, 5 pgs)
  • "How to Create a Resilient Supply Chain"   (Supply Chain Management Review. New York: Mar 2006. Vol. 10, Iss. 2;  pg. 64, 1 pgs)
  • "Why KPIs Belong in Supply Chain Contracts"   (Supply Chain Management Review. New York: Mar 2006. Vol. 10, Iss. 2;  pg. 22, 7 pgs)
  • "Right On Target"   (World Trade. Troy:Oct 2005. Vol. 18, Iss. 10, p. 28 (1 pp.))

The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all of the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or advise on research strategies. For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.

See also the Foster Business Library's Business & Economics FAQ, and, in particular, the section for Management.

For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.

• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by class or program)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by industry)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by title of assignment)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by academic quarter)
• Index to all Team Consultations and Research Guides