Supply Chain Management and Procurement Management

"DC VELOCITY is the market leading multi-media magazine brand serving the specific informational needs of logistics and supply chain managers and executives."

(http://www.logisticsbusiness.com) Logistics Business magazine is the top lead-generating logistics magazine in Europe. Published quarterly, Logistics Business Magazine is read by high-level logistics and supply chain decision makers in end-user blue-chip organizations, operational management in third party logistics and warehousing companies, purchasers and specifiers in systems integrators and dealers and technical management in major materials handling OEMs. Logistics Business is free and you can view the last four years' worth of digital issues.

Logistics World is a directory of logistics resources on the internet. Find logistics companies, logistics providers, supply chain consultants, supply chain management, freight forwarders, freight companies, trucking companies, moving companies, movers, shipping companies, air freight, air carriers, ocean freight, ship lines, rail freight, third party logistics providers, warehouses, freight transportation and more.

"Supply Chain Digest is the industry's most valuable supply chain management and logistics publication. Supply Chain Digest is a weekly, on-line newsletter with lively information, news and commentary that summarizes and synthesizes important information for busy supply chain and logistics professionals. Editor Dan Gilmore's weekly "First Thoughts" column is cited by other supply chain practioners and commentators across the globe."

This is a blog produced by Zipline Logistics, a company, which is "a digitally-enabled, managed transportation partner located in Columbus, Ohio that specializes exclusively as a logistics provider in the consumer goods sector."

Engineering360 is the world's largest online destination for engineers, delivering the single source for critical engineering content, information, insight, tools and community for engineers and technical professionals across multiple industries and disciplines. Can look for more than122 million parts from suppliers across the industrial sector.

Database of about 2,600,000 companies mainly from European countries.

Global Sources "connects authentic buyers and verified suppliers worldwide with tailored solutions and trusted market intelligence through trade shows, digital platforms and magazines." Its mission is to "Connect authentic buyers and suppliers worldwide." You can search from 157,677 Suppliers and Exporters, 2,421,504 Product Profiles, and 13,030 Product Categories.

"[IndustryNet] list[s] more than 456,000 industrial suppliers."

Created by Industrial Quick Search (IQS®), IQS Directory is a comprehensive listing of manufacturers and suppliers serving major segments of the OEM industrial manufacturing marketplace across the United States and Canada. Industrial engineers and buyers rely on IQS Directory to specify products within a series of categories and buy products directly from manufacturers.

"Kompass is a world-leading B2B information provider. With a presence in over 60 countries across the globe, Kompass is an internationally-recognized company that’s dedicated to helping you master your market, sell your products or services, and market your brand."

"America's original industrial directory since 1893, MacRAE'S is where industrial buyers go to find the exact product or service they need, when they need it."

"For over 120 years, Thomas has served as North America’s number one industrial sourcing platform and marketing powerhouse." With over 500,000 manufacturers/suppliers listed, you can find suppliers and buyers of products.

Providing access to transportation-related research, reports, data, and reference services. Can find more statistics and data by going to the full Bureau of Transportation Statistics website, of which the National Transportation Library is a part.

The County Transportation Profiles dataset is provided by the Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics on an annual basis. The data presented in the number of airports, the number of bridges, number of residents, number of docks, number of miles of freight railroad, number of workers in each county.

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) was created by the Department of Transportation Act of 1966. It is one of ten agencies within the U.S. Department of Transportation concerned with intermodal transportation.

A map of all the railroads in the United States, that can be expanded and as you expand, more details of railroads show up.

From the U.S. Energy Information Administration, this site gives the current cost of regular gasoline per gallon, every Monday, in different regions of the country.

"MARAD's Office of Policy and Plans publishes statistical and economic analyses and reports on a variety of maritime transportation topics."

From the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. "The National Highway System consists of roadways important to the nation’s economy, defense, and mobility."

This annual publication contains many facts and statistics on the U.S. transportation system, including Vehicle, Aircraft, and Vessel Inventory, Travel and Goods Movement, Safety of transportation system, Transportation and the Economy, Transportation and Consumer Expenditures, Transportation Revenues, Employment, and Productivity, U.S. Transportation Section Energy Consumption, and more.

"The State Transportation Statistics (STS) present data on each state's infrastructure, safety, freight movement, passenger travel, vehicles, economy and finance, and energy and the environment."

Get Instant, Free, Container Shipping Estimates, as well as Break Bulk, Bulk, and Project Cargo, from anywhere to anywhere in the World.

"World Port Source provides interactive satellite images, maps and contact information for 5,353 ports in 196 countries around the world"

ICAO is a United Nations specialized agency. ICAO is funded and directed by 193 national governments to support their diplomacy and cooperation in air transport as signatory states to the Chicago Convention (1944). Its core function is to maintain an administrative and expert bureaucracy (the ICAO Secretariat) supporting these diplomatic interactions, and to research new air transport policy and standardization innovations as directed and endorsed by governments through the ICAO Assembly, or by the ICAO Council which the assembly elects.

"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 190 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world."

With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. World Bank "pink sheets" on commodity prices.

"The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible."

CAPS, or the Center for Advanced Procurement Strategy, is a B2B nonprofit research center at Arizona State University, serving supply management leaders at Fortune 1000 companies.

This primer provides a new way of thinking about the future of supply chains—bringing together the top procurement priorities of leading global
businesses and the key forces of change reshaping the very business models that have given rise to global supply chains—to enable supply
chain leaders to envision and manage future-fit supply chains.

This site comes from Syracuse University in New York.

The ISM® Report On Business® is a "consistent and accurate in indicating the direction of the overall economy, in addition to the manufacturing and services sectors. The reports are available on the first and third business day of each month. ISM's Hospital (PMI™) will be available on the fifth business day of each month."

"Kompass is a world-leading B2B information provider. With a presence in over 60 countries across the globe, Kompass is an internationally-recognized company that’s dedicated to helping you master your market, sell your products or services, and market your brand."

A list of relevant supply chain and logistics links from the Georgia Tech Supply Chain Logistics Institute.

"SupplyChainBrain, today’s most comprehensive supply chain management information resource, is accessed year round through a wide range of ever evolving multi-media formats by hundreds of thousands of the world’s most influential supply chain executives. In addition to addressing the fundamental principles of supply-chain management, SupplyChainBrain identifies the latest news, emerging trends, technologies and best practices, forward thinking ideas and cutting-edge solutions - and continues to write and report about these as they evolve and mature."