Life Cycle Management in Supply Chains: Identifying Innovations Through the Case of the VCR: Identifying Innovations Through the Case of the VCR

Higuchi, Toru · Troutt, Marvin

Apr 2008 · IGI Global

About this ebook

As the supply chain is the major arena for competition in modern business, and at each stage in the industrial life cycle it is necessary to adjust the management of the supply chain to remain competitive, there is a growing demand for authoritative research to clarify the supply chain structure and evolution through the industrial life cycle.

Life Cycle Management in Supply Chains: Identifying Innovations Through the Case of the VCR presents comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the intimate connection between the industry life cycle and supply chain management, utilizing the case of the industrial life cycle of the VCR to provide practitioners and researchers with key insight into the supply chain as the basic business unit for competition, and the requisite alteration of the management of the supply chain at each stage of the life cycle.

About the author

Toru Higuchi is an associate professor of Logistics in the Department of Policy Studies at Sakushin Gakuin University in Utsunomiya, Tochigi prefecture, Japan. He was an associate editor of Journal of Public Utility Economics. He received a M.A from the School of Management at Gakushuin University in 1996. His publications have appeared in Computers & Operations Research, Journal of Public Utility Economics and others. His current research interests include supply chain management, business logistics, global logistics, and transfer pricing.

Marvin D. Troutt is a Professor in the Department of Management & Information Systems and in the Graduate School of Management at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute. He received the PhD in Mathematical Statistics from The University of Illinois at Chicago in 1975. His publications have appeared in Management Science, Decision Sciences, Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research, Decision Support Systems, Naval Research Logistics, Statistics, and others. He received the 2005 Distinguished Scholar Award at Kent State. He was formerly Director of the Center for Information Systems at Kent State and the Rehn Research Professor in Management at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. He served as Visiting Scholar in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University during 1994-95. His current interests include supply chain management, strategy, and planning. [Editor]