Marvin Troutt

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.

Publications

Life Cycle Management in Supply Chains: Identifying Innovations Through the Case of the VCR
Life Cycle Management in Supply Chains: Identifying Innovations Through the Case of the VCR
Toru Higuchi, Marvin Troutt. © 2008. 362 pages.
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...