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"Retail supply chain consists of multiple segments from sales to distribution to finance. Retail manufacturers rely on a complicated web of suppliers. Customer demand and market competition today requires extreme efficiency from end to end. This book offers the retail supply chain executive wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Ayers, James B. (Author), Odegaard, Mary Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2018]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Business logistics.
Retail trade > Management.
Industrial procurement > Management.
Materials management.
Logistique (Organisation)
Gestion de l'approvisionnement.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Purchasing & Buying.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
Business logistics
Industrial procurement > Management
Retail trade > Management
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • About the authors
  • Preface
  • The retail industry & supply chain management
  • Defining the retail supply chain
  • Success in a retail business
  • Types of retail supply chain businesses
  • A changing world: moving toward comparative advantage
  • Corporate social responsibility, sustainability & the retail industry
  • Forces shaping the retail supply chain environment
  • Drivers of retail supply chain change
  • Paths to the customer
  • Supply chain risk
  • Retail supply chain metrics
  • Meeting the needs of supply chain decision-makers
  • Retail strategy & supply chains
  • Product types
  • value to the customer
  • Businesses inside the business
  • Activity systems & process definition
  • Retail scm ¿ skills required
  • Retail supply chain process improvement
  • Organizing to improve retail supply chain performance
  • Collaboration with supply chain partners
  • The demand-driven supply chain
  • Product tracking along retail supply chains
  • Achieving financial success in the retail supply chain
  • Understanding supply chain costs
  • Barriers to addressing root causes for cost
  • Multicompany collaboration to reduce costs ¿ who, what, & how
  • Retail return loops
  • Case application: seabear/made in washington
  • A. glossary
  • B. bibliography
  • Index.

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