Overview

In the last half of the twentieth century industry encountered a revolutionary change brought about by the harnessed power of seemingly ever-increasing capacity, speed and functionality of computers and microprocessors. This strength provided management and workers within industries with new capabilities for management, planning and control, design, quality assurance and customer support. Organized information flow became the mainstay of industrial companies. New tools and information technology systems emerged and evolved to enable companies to integrate the various departments (Design, Procurement, Manufacturing, Sales and Finance) within companies, particularly the lager ones, including international corporations. This was to give them a chance to meet new demands for product time to market, just in time supply of orders, and customer support. To the smaller company these changes were not so apparent. Neither the tools nor systems nor indeed their economic value seemed appropriate to them except for special cases. While all this was happening the structure of the larger companies began to disintegrate. Strong competitive pressures and globalization of the market place brought this about. Shedding unwanted competence and subcontracting it to others became common practice. Regional market pressures triggered companies to reorganize to create, produce, and distribute goods and services. Greater dependency on chains of supply from external companies became the norm. Medium and smaller sized companies began to gain some advantage and at the same time some were sucked into management and control systems governed by the larger companies.

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Author:   Yoon Seok Chang ,  Harris C. Makatsoris ,  Howard D. Richards
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.825kg
ISBN:  

9781475780062

ISBN 10:   1475780060
Pages:   527
Publication Date:   24 March 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Scale and Scope.- Adaptive Value Networks.- 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 Framework 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.- Multi-Channel Marketing.- 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.

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