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Supply Chain: IT Systems & Analytics

Focus on purchasing, materials management and logistics

Information Technology Trends & Assessments - Gartner

Gartner
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Evaluates emerging technology applications and trends for purchasing, inventory management, logistics and other enterprise systems
Use to analyze ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), MRP(Material Resource Planning) and other related operation systems
Magic Quadrants compare IT vendor capabilities
Hype Cycles determine if a system is coming or going
Top 25 company supply chains
Top supply chain IT vendors

Information Technology Trends & Assessments - Additional Sources

Frost & Sullivan
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Research reports on IT systems and automation impacting supply chain functions
Use policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of Frost & Sullivan."

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Forrester
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Some supply chain IT system vendor analysis. B2B eCommerce topics
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IDC
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Market intelligence covering the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets.

Information Technology Articles

ABI/INFORM Collection
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IT trade journals and research on computing and IT management. Use Browse to locate info about application providers, value added resellers and IT systems
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IEEE Xplore
Covers computing. Full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, standards & online courses, plus related e-books.
ACM Digital Library
Access all ACM publication including the Communications of the ACM, the premier journal emerging trends in IT and computer science

Supply Chain IT Vendor Identification

IT System Guidebooks

O'Reilly Safari Books Online
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Programming languages, information technology management, operating systems, software applications & other business titles

Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain 4.0: Improving Supply Chains with Analytics by Emel Aktas; Michael Bourlakis; Ioannis Minis; Vasileios Zeimpekis
ISBN: 1789660742
Publication Date: 2021-02-03
Logistics 4. 0 by Turan Paksoy (Editor); Cigdem Gonul Kochan (Editor); Sadia Samar Ali (Editor)
ISBN: 9780367340032
Publication Date: 2020-12-15

SCM System & Software Purchasing Guides

Software Contract Agreements by Robert Bond
ISBN: 9781854186928
Publication Date: 2010-08-30
Buying, Supporting, Maintaining Software and Equipment by Gay Gordon-Byrne
ISBN: 9781482232783
Publication Date: 2014-06-25

Supply Chain Analytics

Supply Chain Analytics: Concepts, Techniques & Applications by Kurt Y. Liu
ISBN: 9783030922238
Publication Date: 2022-04-08
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Inventory and Supply Chain Management by Sharma, D. K. and Jain, Madhu, editors
ISBN: 9811963371
Publication Date: 2022
Big Data Analytics in Supply Chain Management by Iman Rahimi (Editor); Amir H. Gandomi (Editor); Simon James Fong (Editor); M. Ali Ülkü (Editor)
ISBN: 1000326918
Publication Date: 2020-12-20
Predictive Analytics for Dummies by Anasse Bari; Tommy Jung; Mohamed Chaouchi
ISBN: 9781119267003
Publication Date: 2016-10-31

Blockchain in Supply Chain

Blockchain and Supply Chain Management by Nir Kshetri
ISBN: 9780323899345
Publication Date: 2021-03-02
Blockchain and the Supply Chain by Nick Vyas; Aljosja Beije; Bhaskar Krishnamachari
ISBN: 9780749498450
Publication Date: 2019-05-28
Integrating Blockchain into Supply Chain Management by Matthew A. Waller; Remko Van Hoek; Marat Davletshin; Brian Fugate
ISBN: 9781789660487
Publication Date: 2019-11-26
The Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation Handbook: Disruptive Technologies & New Business Models by John Manners-Bell; Ken Lyon
ISBN: 9780749486341
Publication Date: 2019-07-03