Evolution of Supply Chain Management

by Chang, Yoon Seok; Makatsoris, Harris C.; Richards, Howard D.

• ISBN13: 9781402078125
• ISBN10: 1402078129
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book is an essential reference for academicians and practitioners alike. Its aim is to bridge the gap between research and industrial need, providing further insight to end users about the dangers of poor quality information, emerging technology trends, and state-of-the-art solutions, as well as the latest in acquisition, implementation, and ownership of those technologies. ICT (Information and Communication Technology) is helping to create a new business environment in which businesses are bound together as well as to service and support customers to their mutual benefit.

Table of Contents

Preface

Scale and Scope

Adaptive Value Networks: Emerging Tools and Technology as Catalysts

From production to a product perspective

Collaborative solutions in the single European electronic market (SEEM)

Case Studies

Supply Chain Solution Implementation

Special Needs of SMES and Micro Businesses

Creating a Research Agenda for Semiconductor Supply Network Integration

Designtexnet

Reverse Marketing, Consumer Value Networks and the New Brand Intermediaries

Experiences of WWW Sites as a Decision Support System in Different Acquisitions

Confronting New Ways of Working

Value Chain Methodology for Dynamic Business Environments

Models and Systems to Manage High Value Socio-Technical Networks

Value Networks Dynamics in ICT Symbiosis

A Roadmap of Manufacturing System Evolution

Supply Chain Management Using Auto-ID Systems

Systems and Tools

Living Agents

Enabling Value Net Collaboration

Supply Chain Management with Virtual Market in ICT Environment

Integrated Manufacturing System

Collaborative sense-and-respond ICT for demand-driven value network management

Epilogue

Contributing Authors

Index

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