SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT : Library Resources and Information

This Library guide supports the research activities of The University of Auckland Business School's New Zealand Centre for Supply Chain Management

CSCM Industry Members

• Ports of Auckland
• New Zealand Defence Force
• The Warehouse
• Toll New Zealand

CSCM publications

The following publications are from staff and students undertaking research work for the Centre for Supply Chain Management. Where available links have been made to the Library catalogue with book location details or to the full text of articles available within the Library's collections via institutional signon using Netaccount, or to open sources.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Reefke, H., & Sundaram, D. (2010). A strategy framework and roadmap for sustainable supply chain management. The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 6(2), 93-110. [Abstract at publisher website]
• Shi, P. (2009). The effect of responsive forecasting on supply chain efficiency. Journal of Modern Business, 175, 11-12.
• Soon, C. & Gutierrez, J. (2009). Recognizing RFID as a disruptive technology. International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, 2(1), 55-68.
• Sridharan, V.G., Krishnan, R., Vergauwen, P., & Arthanari, T. (2009). The TOC-ABC choice debate for product mix decisions: Introducing asset specificity as an alternate explanation. Journal of Global Business Issues, 3(1), Spring.
  
• Mann, D.K., Biswas, A.K., & Arthanari, T.S. (2008). Sampling procedure for sieve analysis of NPK: 17-17-17 fertilizer. IAPQR Transactions, 33(1).
• Robb, D., Xie, B., & Arthanari, T. (2008). Supply chain and operations practice and performance in Chinese furniture manufacturing. International Journal of Production Economics, 112(2), 683-699.
• Soon, C. & Gutierrez, J. (2008). Effects of RFID mandate on supply chain management. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 3(1), 81-91.
• Wood, L., & Lu, Q. (2008). Process management in high tech New Zealand firms. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, 5(3), 259–278.
• Sankaran, J., & Wood, L. (2007). The relative impact of consignee behaviour and road traffic congestion on distribution costs. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 41(9), 1033-1049.
• Lu, Q., & Wood, L. (2006). The refinement of design for manufacture: inclusion of process design. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 26(10), 1123-1145.

Sections in Books

• Reefke, H., Sundaram, D., & Ahmed, M. D. (2010). Maturity progression model for sustainable supply chains. In: W. Dangelmaier et al. (Eds.): Lecture notes in business information processing: Vol. 46, Advanced manufacturing and sustainable logistics 8th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium, IHNS 2010, Paderborn, Germany, April 21-22, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 308–319). Berlin Heidelberg; Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12494-5_28
• Reefke, H. (2010). Simulation of container traffic flows at a metropolitan seaport. In: W. Dangelmaier et al. (Eds.): Lecture notes in business information processing: Vol. 46, Advanced manufacturing and sustainable logistics 8th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium, IHNS 2010, Paderborn, Germany, April 21-22, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 420–431). Berlin Heidelberg; Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12494-5_37
  
• Arthanari, T.S. (2009). Models without main players. In S. K. Neogy, A. K. Das, & R. B. Bapat (Eds.). Statistical science and interdisciplinary research: Vol. 6, Modeling, computation and optimization (Chapter 7). Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific.
• Soon, C. (2009). Radio frequency identification history and development. In J. Symonds, J. Ayoade, & D. Parry (Eds.). Auto-identification and ubiquitous computing applications: RFID and smart technologies for information convergence (pp. 1-18). NY; Information Science Reference.
• Arthanari, T.S. (2008). On the membership problem of pedigree polytope. In S. K. Neogy, R. B. Bapat, A. K. Das, & T. Parthasarathy (Eds.). Statistical science and interdisciplinary research: Vol. 1, Mathematical programming and game theory for decision making (Chapter 6). Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific.
• Haerian Ardekani, L., & Arthanari, T. (2008). Traveling salesman problem and membership in pedigree polytope - A numerical illustration. In Communications in Computer and Information Science: Vol. 14, Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences Second International Conference MCO 2008, Metz, France - Luxembourg, September 8-10, 2008 Proceedings (pp. 145-154).
• Lu, Q., & Wood, L. (2005). Dynamics on the factory floor of AES: any "credits" for short-sighted behaviours? In M. Wilson. (Ed.). (2005). Case in point : best cases from the 2005 International Conference on Case Study Teaching and Learning (pp.41-55). Auckland, N.Z.: GSE Publications.
• Lu, Q., Wood, L., & Cheung, S. (2005). The birth of the vision tester at AES: the impact and distribution of process variety. In M. Wilson. (Ed.). (2005). Case in point : best cases from the 2005 International Conference on Case Study Teaching and Learning (pp.41-55). Auckland, N.Z.: GSE Publications.

Conference Papers

• Arthanari, T. S., & Sundaram, D. (2009). A Metaphor for the interface between OM and IS. Paper in the refereed proceedings of the international conference of the production and operations society of America, POMS 2009, Orlando, Fl., USA, 30 April – 5 May, 2009.
• Soon, C., & Guiterrez, J. (2008). Where is New Zealand at with radio frequency identification in the supply chain? - A survey result. In L. Janczewski & J. Gutiérrez. (Ed.s). Information resources management in the digital economy: Proceedings of 2008 International Conference on Information Resources Management, Niagara Falls, Ontario, May 18-20 2008, (Paper 93).
• Wood, L. (2007). It takes three to tango: the role of process development in NPD. Proceedings of the 13th ANZSYS Conference, Systemic Development: Local Solutions in a Global Environment - Auckland, New Zealand, 2nd-5th December, 2007
• Lu, Q., & Wood, L. (2006). Functional interactions for product realisation: Evidence from New Zealand high-tech manufacturing firms. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress for Total Quality Management, Wellington, New Zealand, 4-6 December 2006.
• Soon, C., & Guiterrez, J. (2004). Mobile commerce over wireless local area networks. In N. Callaos, V. A. Lefebvre, E. Hansen, T. Dickopp, & Jaw-Sin, S. (Ed.s). The 8th World multi-conference on systemics, cybernetics and informatics : proceedings, July 18-21, 2004, Orlando, Florida, USA : SCI 2004. Vol. 1, Information systems, technologies and applications. Orlando: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.
• Wood, L., & Sankaran J. (2004). The Impact of JIT replenishment and road traffic congestion on distribution costs. Proceedings of the 39th annual conference, Operational Research Society of New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand, 28-29 November 2004
  

Non-refereed Journal Articles

Soon, C. (2008). Picking up the signals: Is RFID making waves in New Zealand? iStart Technology in Business Magazine, Quarter One, 10-12.

Theses

From other institutions:

For tips on finding theses within New Zealand and overseas refer to the Library webpage Theses and Dissertations.

Books

Suggested Subject Heading searches

Click on a subject heading below to display an index of subject headings in the Library catalogue, Voyager. Then click on a heading of interest to display a list of books / journals on that topic. Many of these headings have additional subcategories of interest:

These materials are drawn from the University's Library collection and reports available on the internet:

• Pearlson, K., & Saunders, C. S. (2010). Managing and using information systems : a strategic approach (4th ed.). Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.
• Stephens, M. P., & Meyers, F. E. (2010). Manufacturing facilities design and material handling (4th ed.). Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall.
• Sun, Y. T., & University of Waikato. Dept. of Management Systems. (2010). Five critical knowledge of management organizational themes related to the routine based capability of an organization. Hamilton, N.Z.: Dept. of Management Systems, University of Waikato.
• Wilson, L. (2010). How to implement lean manufacturing. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Banerjea, P. K. (2009). Technology and business strategy : a global perspective (1st ed.). Hyderabad, India: Icfai University Press.
• Gardiner, L. et al. (2009). Climate change effects on the land transport network. Research Report 378 Vol 1: Literature review and gap analysis; Vol 2: Approach to risk management Wellington, N.Z.: NZ Transport Agency. [Internet]
• Hirano, H. (2009). JIT implementation manual : the complete guide to just-in-time manufacturing (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press.
• Knolmayer, G. (2009). Supply chain management based on SAP systems architecture and planning processes. Berlin ; New York: Springer.
• McDonald, S. C. (2009). Materials management : an executive's supply chain guide. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons.
• Olson, E. G. (2009). Better green business handbook for environmentally responsible and profitable business practices (1st ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Pub.
• Otto, A., Schoppengerd, F. J., & Shariatmadari, R.(Ed.s). (2009). Direct store delivery concepts, applications and instruments. Berlin ; London: Springer.
• Rockpoint Corporate Finance Ltd. (2009). Coastal shipping and modal freight choice. Wellington: New Zealand Transport Agency.[Internet]
• Sen, D., Sen, P., & Das, A. M. (2009). RFID for energy & utility industries. Tulsa, Okla.: PennWell.
• Wilson, N. H. M., & Nuzzolo, A. (Ed.s). (2009). Schedule-Based modeling of transportation networks : theory and applications. New York: Springer Science+Business.
• Allan, T. (2008). Life cycle thinking : the role of inventory analysis in New Zealand. Wellington, N.Z.: Ministry of Research Science and Technology.[Internet]
• Crandall, R. E., & Crandall, W. (2008). New methods of competing in the global marketplace critical success factors from service and manufacturing. Boca Raton: Auerbach Publications.[AU ebook]
• Frykberg, E. (2008, December 14). Ports in Crisis. Insight Programme, Radio New Zealand.[Internet audio]
• Fung, V. K., Fung, W., & Wind, Y. (2008). Competing in a flat world : building enterprises for a borderless world. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Wharton School Pub.
• Mulcahy, D. E., & Sydow, J. (2008). A supply chain logistics program for warehouse management. New York: CRC Press.

Book series

• International Series in Operations Research and Management Science published by Springer. The library holds multiple volumes in this series. All series content may be searched as one combined title. See publisher coverage.[AU ebook access]
• Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology

Encyclopedias

• Bidgoli, H. (2003). Encyclopedia of Information Systems. Amsterdam ; Boston: Academic Press.4 v. Full text within ScienceDirect.
• Cooper, C. L., Argyris, C., Starbuck, W. H., & Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (2005). The Blackwell encyclopedia of management (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. see v.7 on Management information systems, v.10 on Operations Management [AU ebook access]
• Gass, S. I. & Harris, C. M. (Ed.s). (2001). Encyclopedia of operations research and management science. Boston : Kluwer Academic.

Selected Journals relating to SCM

Click on a title below to display the Library catalogue Voyager record, including years held and location details (including online) :

Searching for Academic Articles - Library databases

For the latest peer-reviewed research published in scholarly journals use these databases to locate articles for SCM: 

• ABI/Inform | Helpsheet (Proquest) indexes over 2,700 business and economics periodicals and provides full text articles for around 2000 of these. May be searched simultaneously with other ProQuest 5000 databases

• Business Source Premier | Helpsheet (Ebsco) provides full text for nearly 7,800 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,125 peer-reviewed business publications. It includes Country Monitor and Industry Yearbook Reports from WEFA and country reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

• Emerald Management Xtra | Step by Step Guide full text journals covering marketing, human resources, quality management, operations, production & economics and general management
• ScienceDirect | Helpsheet
  • Part of Scopus | Guide which can also be useful for business topics. Many items are available full text.
• ProjectManagmentnetBASE - fulltext access to over 50 titles published by the Taylor and Francis Group. Topics include business process strategy, leadership, management strategy and techniques, supply chain management, software deployment and management, performance improvement, supply chain project management, process improvement, organizational engineering, lean management and risk management
• Gartner Group Intranet  IT market research reports
• ACM Digital Library  fulltext journals and conference proceedings from the Association for Computing Machinery
• IEEExplore fulltext of all IEEE and IEE publications including journal articles, conference papers, and technical standards
• General OneFile (Expanded Academic) cross-disciplinary with some good business content

• Index New Zealand (INNZ) a general index to NZ periodicals. Not full text but useful for broad coverage of magazines such as The NZ Listener, North & South and government reports. To locate the full text of an article, you need to locate the details of the journal title in the library catalogue, by entering a serial title search in Voyager
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre (Ebsco) combines content from Australian, New Zealand and overseas magazines, newspapers, newswires, reference books and company information

Staying current

Find out what is being reported in the New Zealand media concerning your area of research:

• National Business Review Online
• NewztextPlus  | Helpsheet key business publications including the New Zealand Herald, the Independent and INL newspapers
• Factiva | Quick Reference Guide Dow Jones and Reuters news and journal articles plus company information. You can use a company search to create and build company reports

Additional resources

• Google Scholar - concentrates on academic literature, worth searching in addition to the Library databases

Working papers / Conferences

• Social Science Research Network
  • TOP Papers for Information Systems & eBusiness Network
  • Supply Chain Management materials

Conference proceedings

• Conference Papers Index - use this library subscription database to track papers presented at conferences

Government / Research institutions

• Ministry of Transport

  • News related to researchers access reports undertaken by the Ministry concerning transport and freight, including future trends
    • NZIER Freight Futures report released 13 October 2010
New Zealand Transport Authority
• NZTA Research "a quarterly publication profiling the findings of recently completed research funded through the NZTA research programme".

• MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics
• Standford Graduate School of Business - Global Supply Chain Management Forum
• Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Operations and Information Management
  

Industry

New Zealand

• Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport - New Zealand Section
• i-Start Technology in Business NZ - SCM / RFID / B2B eCommerce research
• IBM Business Services - Supply Chain Management NZ
• New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development
  • Sustainable Supply Chain guide, written with industry contribution. I, includes Business Case Studies
• New Zealand Shipping Federation resources "information and documents relevant to shipping in New Zealand and the work of the Federation"
• Supply Chain Council - Australia and New Zealand Chapter

International

• APICS The Association for Operations Management
• Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
• CIPS: Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
• Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
• EurOMA European Operations Management Association
• Institute for Supply Management
• Institute of Industrial Engineers
• JOMSA Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association
• POMS Production and Operation Management Society
• Procurement and Supply Chain Benchmarking Association
• Supply Chain Council
  

Industry resources

• SupplyChainBrain - industry news and resources, by Keller International Publishing LLC