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
Summary
"This book presents comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the intimate connection between the industry life cycle and supply chain management. It provides practitioners and researchers with 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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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