Life cycle management in supply chains identifying innovations through the case of the VCR /

• Main Author: Higuchi, Toru.
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Troutt, Marvin.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Business logistics.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

This book work on the intimate connection between the industry life cycle and supply chain management, utilizes the case of the industrial life cycle of the VCR to provide insight into the supply chain as the basic business unit for competition, and the requisite alteration of the management of the...

Table of Contents:

• SCS models
• Review of Life Cycle Theories
• Analytic Research and Quantitative Models
• Supply Chain Dynamics and Dynamic Simulation
• Prerequisite conditions for commercializing
• Struggle for de facto standards
• Development of products
• Emergence of destructive new technologies
• Extreme innovators and innovators
• Early adopters and early majority
• Late majority and laggards
• Physical location
• Partial dispersion
• Total dispersion
• Convergence of facilities in low cost operation areas
• Application of the industrial life cycle concept.