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Retail Supply Chain Management
This book is available to read until 4th December, 2025
- 448 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 4 Dec |Learn more
Retail Supply Chain Management
About this book
A consequence of business specialization is the implementation of weak processes that cross departmental and corporate boundaries. Supply chain management (SCM) addresses this issue by requiring a process view that reaches across these confines. Due to globalization and a competitive environment, those within the retail supply chains are particular
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Section 1. The Retail Supply Chain
- Chapter 1. Defining the Retail Supply Chain
- Chapter 2. Success in a Retail Business
- Chapter 3. Types of Retail Supply Chain Business
- Chapter 4. A Changing World: Moving Toward Comparative Advantage
- Chapter 5. Corporate Social Responsibilty, Sustainability, and the Retail Industry
- Section 2. Forces Shaping the Retail Supply Chain Environment
- Chapter 6. Drivers of Retail Supply Chain Change
- Chapter 7. Paths to the Customer
- Chapter 8. Supply Chain Risk
- Chapter 9. Retail Supply Chain Metrics
- Chapter 10. Meeting the Needs of Supply Chain Decision Makers
- Section 3. Retail Strategy and Supply Chains
- Chapter 11. Product Types-Value to the Customer
- Chapter 12. Businesses Inside the Business
- Chapter 13. Activity Systems and Process Definition
- Chapter 14. Retail Supply Chain Management-Skills Required
- Section 4. Retail Supply Chain Process Improvement
- Chapter 15. Organizing to Improve Retail Supply Chain Performance
- Chapter 16. Collaboration with Supply Chain Partners
- Chapter 17. The Demand-Driven Supply Chain
- Chapter 18. Product Tracking Along Retial Supply Chains
- Section 5. Achieving Financial Success in the Retail Supply Chain
- Chapter 19. Understanding Supply Chain Costs
- Chapter 20. Barriers to Addressing Root Causes for Cost
- Chapter 21. Multicompany Collaboration to Reduce Costs-Who, What, AND How
- Chapter 22. Retail Return Loops
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover