...Rajeev Ranjan Kumar; Pritish Kumar; Krishna Kumar Dadsena; Rajeev Verma Purpose Drone technology offers transformative gains in supply chain speed, efficiency and reach, yet adoption remains limited. This study explores how technological, organisational and environmental factors collectively...

...Stephanie Perkiss; Jonathon Mackay Purpose When a retailer has their own branded chocolate product, they have the same obligations as others in the cocoa supply chain to undertake the required due diligence to address human rights and environmental issues. However, there is an attitude–behaviour...

..., click and collect, distribution, local produce, independent, logistics, rural, urban, business-to-business, business-to-consumer and supply chain. Patents and citations were disabled. The words were used to select articles for further classification, while the concepts were considered complementary...

...Régis Delafenestre Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find and classify the most relevant works in the literature on the latest technologies applied in global supply chains. To help future researchers find the most relevant the authors according to the authors’ research interest quickly...

... 31 03 2017 08 05 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only International Supply chain Performance E-commerce Fashion Internet shopping In recent years, e-commerce – i.e., the process of buying and selling products...

... management observations or economic and demographic indicators. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, few contributions combine RFID and consumer behaviour outside conceptual work or laboratory experiments. RFID Supply chain Category management Retail operations Customer behaviour Fashion retail...

... Group Publishing Limited 2016 Supply chain Efficiency Internalization Fast-fashion Inditex The rapid effects of globalization of the economy along with the deregulation of the textile industry have changed the competitive environment of companies operating in it (Calvo-Dopico...

... to be valued at about 5-7 per cent of the world trade. The luxury industry in Italy has been particularly hard hit and most brands nowadays are urgently looking for demand-side and supply-side strategies to track and control the phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to provide a supply chain view...

... the characteristics, the provenance and the whole process of the supply chain starting with the farmers combing the goats to the delivery of the end goods, it seems obvious that articulating the story behind luxury goods would enhance the shopping experience and provide a sustainable competitive advantage...

... retailers trading in the UK, revealed that information technology is particularly important to the large, multiple “own brand” fashion retailers as it enables the various parties in the supply chain to communicate and to respond to demand. Results indicate that retailers have not fully understood...

...Lawrence Christensen Looks at how Safeway plc is helping the environment through its supply chain. Does this by using recyclable packing on its products, examining route and method of transport to market. Concludes that by recognizing environmental challenges organizations can benefit not only...

... to do profitable e‐grocery business? This paper will discuss these issues in the light of the results of a three‐year, 1,5 million Euro’s Supply Chain Management for Electronic Commerce – ECOMLOG[1] research program of Helsinki University of Technology. Finally, we will present our prediction of when...

...Charu Chandra; Sameer Kumar The concept of taxonomy is applied to inventory management in a supply‐chain using the example of the US textile industry. Through classification and standardisation of issues related to inventory management problems, it is shown how inventory models and techniques can...

... attention is directed towards supply chain efficiency and/or cost control. Internet retail shopping was chosen because it is a new niche market that favours the maximisation of retail inventory “throughput” while, at the same time, favouring “ABC” because of the substantial fixed overhead costs incurred...

... operational issues are addressed, i.e. data capture, solution robustness and cost saving potential in the supply chain. The analysis indicates that the development of new value offerings such as VMI is critical if e‐grocery businesses are ever to gain a competitive advantage over traditional retail formats...

... to organisation, operations and ownership. This paper describes some of the changes in the Polish retail sector during a period of radical change. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Retail trade Poland Economic conditions Distribution International trade Supply chain New practices in supply chain...

...Susan A. Shaw; Juliette Gibbs Uses two case studies to examine how changing market structures in food supply chains have affected the nature of collaboration between retailer and supplier. Looks at the implications for the nature of marketing as a management function and as an area of study...

...J. Foord; S. Bowlby; C. Tillsley Investigates changes in retail‐supply relations by drawing on empirical research into the retail‐supply chain for two product areas:women′s hosiery and bread. Discusses the implications of changes in retail‐supply relations for three specific, though interdependent...