Operations Management & Supply Chain

Industry Benchmarking

• Annual Survey of Manufacturers (US)
  American manufacturing establishments statistics for industry groups and industries.
• Canadian SME Benchmarking Tool
  Industry-specific income statement and balance sheet data for small and medium sized businesses.

Supply Chain Information

• Google Books
  Search within books for chapters/sections containing information about supply chains of particular companies or industries. If a preview isn't available for certain pages, check the library catalogue to see if McGill owns the book.
• Canadian Logistics Industry
• Mergent Horizon
  Analyze the relationships between a company's major customers, suppliers and its partners
  Contains overview of logistics industry including supply chain overviews for major industries
• Supply Chain 2020 Project (MIT)
  Master and Doctoral theses outlining in detail supply chains for several industries.
  

Articles

• Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
  Full-text management journals including several operations management titles.
• ABI/Inform (ProQuest)
  Full-text management journals including several operations management titles.
• Compendex (Ei Village 2)
  Comprehensive, inter-disciplinary database.
• IEEE Publications Online (IEEExplore)
  Full-text/image access to IEEE publications, including journals, conferences and standards.

Citation Tracker

• Web of Science (ISI)
  Multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Also provides cited reference searching.

Useful Websites

• ASQ (American Society for Quality)
• APICS-Association for Operations Management
• INFORMS - Institute for Operations Research & Management Sciences
• SCL Canada - Supply Chain & Logistics Canada

Reference

• Encyclopedia of decision making and decision support technologies
• Encyclopedia of operations research and management science
• Encyclopedia of optimization
• Encyclopedia of production and manufacturing management

Related Guides

• Transportation (Managment)
• Manufacturing Management
• Industry Research