Researching Supply Chains

Apart from the monthly Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization from the Federal Reserve Board, several of the Federal Reserve Banks conduct periodic surveys of the manufacturing industries in their region:

• Business Outlook Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
• Chicago Fed Midwest Manufacturing Index (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
• Empire State Manufacturing Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
• Fifth District Survey of Manufacturing Activity (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
• Ninth District Manufacturing Surveys (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
• South Jersey Business Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
• Survey of Tenth District Manufacturers (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
• Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)

Other useful reports are:

• Economic Indicators: Manufacturing & Production
• Industry Reports covering dozens of manufacturing sectors are provided by Cengage via the HighBeam Business portal.
• Manufacturing Fact Sheet, a monthly economic review by the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
• Gale's Manufacturing and Distribution USA: Industry Analyses, Statistics, and Leading Companies. (Rutgers-restricted access) (Earlier edition Manufacturing USA available in print: CAMDEN REF HD 9724 .M35; DANA Reference Desk; [http://bit.ly/94EV8O] )
• Industry reports on the manufacturing sector from the Toxics Release Inventory.
• U.S. Industrial Outlook, a quarterly report from the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation