Subject Guides: MBA 637: Global Supply Chain Network: Home

Videos

Dustin Burke is a managing director and partner at BCG in Chicago and is the global co-leader of BCG's manufacturing and supply chain topic. TEDtalk, September 2021.

Journals & Databases

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Supply Chain Forum
Issues from 01/01/2003 to 06/30/2016 are available.
Journal of Supply Chain Management
Issues from 2012 to present available. Open access.
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management
Issues from 1990 to present available.
International Journal of Production Research
Issues from 11/01/1961 to 18 months ago available.
International Journal of Operations and Production Management
Issues from 1980 to present available.
Decision Sciences
Issues from 03/01/2003 to 1 year ago available.
Supply Chain Management Review
Issues available from 03/01/2000 to present.
Harvard Business Review
Issues from 10/01/1922 to present available.

Finding Books

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Books

Commodity Chains under Pressure: Resilience through Coping, Adaptation, and Transformation (E-book) by Lara M. Espeter; Linda Hering (Eds)
Call Number: E-book, click title to access

ISBN: 9781035355297

Publication Date: 2025
Sustainability, the Circular Economy and Digitalisation in the European Textile and Clothing Industry (E-book) by Martin Wynn, Tina Wiegand (Eds)
Call Number: E-book, click title to access

ISBN: 9789819791156

Publication Date: 2025
Principles of Supply Chain Management and Their Implications (E-book) by Jack Muckstadt
Call Number: E-book, click title to access

ISBN: 9783031661112

Publication Date: 2024
Operations Management in the Era of Fast Fashion: Technologies and Circular Supply Chains (E-book) by Chan, Hau-Ling, Ren, Shuyun, et. al.
Call Number: E-book, click title to access

ISBN: 9789811911774

Publication Date: 2022
Comprehensive Logistics (E-book) by Timm Gudehus; Herbert Kotzab
Call Number: E-book, click title to access

ISBN: 9783642243677

Publication Date: 2012
Customer-Driven Supply Chains (E-book) by Andrew C. Lyons; Adrian E. Coronado Mondragon; Frank Piller; Raúl Poler
Call Number: E-book, click title to access

ISBN: 9781846288760

Publication Date: 2012
Demand Driven Supply Chain (E-book) by Paulo Mendes
Call Number: E-book, click title to access HD38.5 .M46 2011eb

ISBN: 9783642199929

Publication Date: 2011
Globalized Supply Chains and U. S. Policy (E-book) by Solomon Mensah
Call Number: E-book, click title to access

ISBN: 9781608761333

Publication Date: 2010

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Suggested Keywords

Selected keyword searches for Business Logistics

Supply chain management
demand forecasting
inventory management
supply chain strategies
risk assessment, RFID
sustainability
remanufacturing
reverse logistics
outsourcing
procurement
distribution

Writing Resources

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

A Writer's Reference, 10th Ed (book) by Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
Call Number: POR, GOR, & LAC Reference PE1408 .H2778 2021

ISBN: 9781319191887

Publication Date: 2021

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