OSCM 4130 - Supply Chain Strategy and Practice: Home

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About this guide

This guide was written for Dr. Mark Barratt's spring 2018 section of OSCM 4130. The guide has 3 pages:

Home page:
– Finding news articles about your company
– Finding financial and analyst information
SWOT reports
Industry profiles

Off campus access methods (authentication)

Library Off-Campus Access webpage
Information (comprehensive) about all 3 authentication methods; has screenshots.
  –  Authentication is required for off-campus use of library databases by the database vendors.
  –  A few databases only work with the VPN.
  –  Includes FAQs about OpenAthens.

Brief description of 3 authentication methods:

New Library Login (OpenAthens): Many library resources use this method for logging in; requires no setup. When prompted, select "Marquette University Libraries (AZURE)" and then sign in using your Marquette email/password.
Library Login (legacy version): This method is quick and requires no setup. Just login before clicking on library database links or when prompted to do so. A few library databases will not work with it.
VPN (virtual private network): The VPN requires you to download an app on both your mobile device and your computer. A few library databases require it for off-campus access. Outline of the steps required for the VPN:
1. Follow these setup instructions for the free Microsoft Authenticator app.
2. Download the free FortiClient VPN on your computer using instructions for Windows setup or macOS setup.

Finding trade and news articles

Article databases:

ABI/Inform Collection from ProQuest
Provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies & tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, plus a variety of other topics. Full text provided for 7,000+ publications. Mostly 1971 to present.
Includes: ABI/Inform Dateline, ABI/Inform Global, and ABI/Inform Trade & Industry.
Gale Business Insights from Gale
Formerly: Business Insights: Essentials
Searches business journals and magazines, industry reports and encyclopedia articles focusing on company and business information. Indexing 1980-present. Full-text mostly 1990-present.
Formerly: Business Company Resource Center.
Business Source Premier from EBSCO
Searches business publications; includes company, country, and industry reports. Good coverage of scholarly business publications. Mostly 1984 - present.
In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,570 journals. This database contains popular business publications such as Business Week, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review, and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Also included is Wall Street Words, a dictionary of financial terms, linked directly to words within the citations and full text. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984.

Specific titles to look for:

Not a comprehensive listing by any means, but these are some titles that should be useful.

Chain Store Age
1993 - present, via Ebsco.
Fair Disclosure Wire
2004 - present, via ProQuest.
Provides transcripts of conference calls.
Investor's Business Daily (IBD) via Ebsco
2008 (May) - present. Access delayed about one week.
Stores
Except for the NRF website, we have no complete online access for this one. But you will find citations in both ABI/Inform Collection and Business Source Premier, so be aware that you can get the articles, though only in print.
WWD
2004 - present, via Ebsco. Formerly Women's Wear Daily; a major trade mag.

Finding financial and analyst information

Two major resources ... Notes about how and why they're useful below.

Refinitiv Workspace: this database contains the largest collection of sell-side analyst reports -- the After Market Research module (aka AMR or Investext). It also contains market research reports from publishers such as MarketLine and more. Good international coverage. Beware the download limitations!
➤ Instructions on searching in AMR and how to make the most of your download allowance.

Mergent Online: this database is aimed at the academic world. But it has one feature that is unique (unless you have access to FactSet!): the Supply Chain reports. Available now for US and international companies, these provide a 360º view of a company: culling information from SEC/disclosure filings, trade literature and other sources, it provides a view of a company's competitors, suppliers, customers, its place within its industry, and more.

Mergent Online from Mergent
Provides information and data on U.S. and international companies, including annual reports and SEC filings, institutional holdings, FactSheets, Supply Chain reports, etc.
Supply Chain reports cover US public companies primarily in the tech, biotech, and financial sectors. They include information on competitors (by product), customers, market structure, and more. The information is drawn from SEC filings, trade articles, and more. Formerly called Horizon Reports.
Workspace from LSEG (formerly Refinitiv Workspace)
Individual account registration required. More information on linked page.
Chrome and Safari are the recommended browsers. Intro training videos available here.
For public companies provides: financial data; annual & other reports/filings; analyst & market research reports; M&A, new issues & syndicated loans data. Coverage: ~12,000 US companies & ~41,000 non-US companies.
Download limit of 150 pages / 24-hour period for After Market Research module (aka AMR or Investext).
Formerly called Thomson ONE.