Target Costing: Market Driven Product Design

Compiling practical recommendations gleaned from more than 20 years of professional experience, Target Costing: Market Driven Product Design provides numerous examples from field authorities that illustrate valuable concepts and approaches employed in the application of target costing to large-scale manufacturing operations. The authors discuss setting the target product level and subsystem level, maintaining competitive costs, applying the principles of target costing in practice, and quantifying customers' needs.

M. Bradford Clifton is Technical Manager, Lucent Technologies, Supply Chain Networks, Holmdel, New Jersey Henry M. B. Bird is Principal, Enterprise Systems Engineering Group, Princeton, New Jersey Robert E. Albano is Senior Director of Corporate Information Technology at a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey, and Adjunct Professor, Polytechnic Institute of New York Wesley P. Townsend previously was Technical Manager, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Townsend holds 11 patents