Research Guides: MAR 5726: Supply Chain and Marketing in the Digital Age: Supplier Indentification

Supplier Research

Begin supplier research with a review of the company's 10K for any mention of key suppliers, partners, partnerships, or partnership initiatives.

EDGAR (SEC) Database
- search by company name. Select your company and find its 10-K (annual report) Use your browser's "find" command to search for the terms supplier*, partner* , or joint venture within the text.

Press Releases
- Search with a company's name, supplier's name or a competitor's name.
- Look for articles mentioning supplier awards or target company's supply chain development or diversity.

You can search for a company's suppliers in newspapers and trade journals (See NEWS tab). Search the keywords "suppliers" or "supply chain." Also go beyond these keywords and search for new contracts, joint ventures, partnerships, or distributors. Other keywords that may be helpful are procurement, purchasing, inventory management, warehousing, logistics, and outsourcing.

Mergent Online
Formerly called FISonlineObtain business descriptions, corporate histories and financial statements for 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies.

IBISWorld ProcurementIQ This link opens in a new window
ProcurementIQ is a database of more than 1,000 procurement research reports providing essential data and analysis on pricing dynamics, product characteristics, supplier benchmarking, supply chain risks, and negotiation questions and tactics.
*If you are on-campus and experiencing problems accessing ProcurementIQ, paste the URL http://client.procurementiq.com directly into your browser

Abbreviation: ibispro
Vendor: IBISWorld
Subjects: Business, Finance, Marketing
Type: Reports

Factiva (20 concurrent user limit)
Factiva.com, from Dow Jones, includes access to a wide range of information from newspapers, newswires, industry publications, websites, company reports, and more.

Gartner Higher Education Reference This link opens in a new window
Elevate your research with complimentary access to info about the latest technology trends. Gartner Higher Education Reference provides unlimited access to a knowledge base of IT research and technology news, products, and trends to support your research and business projects. Funded in part by the Student Technology Fee, Gartner is available to all current Florida State University students, faculty, and staff. With thousands of research articles on every aspect of information technology, the applications of Gartner research reach far beyond the technology field to practical uses in education, business management, healthcare, government, and more.
Abbreviation: gtnr
Vendor: Gartner
Subjects: Business, Information Technology, MIS: Management Information Systems
Type: Datasets / Statistics, E-Journal Collections, Testing / Tutorials

MAR 5726: Supply Chain and Marketing in the Digital Age

Supplier Research

Supplier Catalogs