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Springer Evolution Of Supply Chain Management Symbiosis Of Adaptive Value Networks And Ict 2004 Edition by Yoon Seok Chang Harris C. Makatsoris Howard D. Richards
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. Table of contents : Preface. Part 1: Scale and Scope. Adaptive Value Networks: Emerging Tools and Technology as Catalysts; S. Datta R. Betts M. Dinning F. Erhun T. Gibbs P. Keskinocak H. Li M. Li M. Samuels. From production to a product perspective; F. Frederix. Collaborative solutions in the single European electronic market (SEEM); I. Laso Ballesteros. Part 2: Case Studies. Supply Chain Solution Implementation; J. Chang M-H. Kang. Special Needs of SMES and Micro Businesses; F. Bonfatti P.D. Monari. Creating a Research Agenda for Semiconductor Supply Network Integration; T. Callarman J. Fowler E. Gel M. Pfund D. Shunk. DESIGNTEXNET; G. Grau M. Winkler. Reverse Marketing Consumer Value Networks and the New Brand Intermediaries; C. Lawer S. Knox. Experiences of WWW Sites as a Decision Support System in Different Acquisitions; R. Breite H. Vanharanta. Part 3: Confronting New Ways of Working. Value Chain Methodology for Dynamic Business Environments; R. Breite H. Vanharanta. Models and Systems to Manage High Value Socio-Technical Networks; A.L. Soares J. Pinho de Sousa. Value Networks Dynamics in ICT Symbiosis; P. Fariselli. Multi-Channel Marketing; H. Wilson M. Hobbs C. Dolder M. McDonald. A Roadmap of Manufacturing System Evolution; Y. Shi. Supply Chain Management Using Auto-ID Systems; Y.S. Chang D. McFarlane. Part 4: Systems and Tools. Living Agents; C. Dannegger K. Dorer. Enabling Value Net Collaboration; G. Lin J.J. Jeng K-Y. Wang. Supply Chain Management with Virtual Market in ICT Environment; T. Kaihara. Integrated Manufacturing System; D. Scott R. Pisa B.G. Lee. Collaborative sense-and-respond ICT for demand-driven value network management; C. Makatsoris Y.S. Chang H.D. Richards. Epilogue. Contributing Authors. Index.