Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Skills and Training
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In addition to your course, the Library offers online resources, courses and workshops to help you develop your information literacy. Details of scheduled events are in the How to...? section of the Bringing your library to you guide.
Effective Information Searching
For postgraduate MSc. Logistics and Supply Chain Management students, searching skills are introduced as a practical activity in your Research Methods module, ENG7142
Literature reviews
Example literature reviews are included in a special issue (48/8 from 2018) of the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (IJPDLM). Hochrein et al. (2015) reviewed 121 literature reviews in supply chain management providing a list of lessons learned in Section 5 of the article.
Recent reviews in supply chain management (Birkel and Muller, 2021; Talwar et al., 2021; Toorajipour et al., 2021; Wijewickrama et al., 2021) adopt the processes of Tranfield et al. (2003) or Briner and Denyer (2012) in producing their literature reviews. You can follow an adapted systematic literature review process for your review.
The key steps in building a systematic review consist of:
1. Planning the review
- Identify the need.
- Specify your research question.
- Develop the review protocol.
2. Conducting a review
- Identify research
- Select studies
- Quality assessment
- Data extraction
- Data synthesis
3. Reporting and dissemination of the review
- Specify dissemination mechanisms.
- Format the report.
Tutorials with your specialist librarian
With access to millions of resources, sometimes the library can seem like an intimidating place. Our specialist Librarians are here to help you make sense of it all by providing in-depth guidance and support in your chosen subject area.
James Dean is the Librarian supporting the Computing, Engineering and Built Environment (CEBE) faculty. James offers tutorials either face-to-face or online via MS Teams.