Figure A3
The bar chart titled “Automation level a consequence of different strategies, or a prerequisite slash driving force for different strategies question mark” shows Swedish retailers' responses measuring the influence of strategy and automation level across eight factors. The vertical axis lists factors including “Economies of scale: our size defines automation level vs our auto-level influences how big we can grow,” “Cost focus: our cost level defines our automation level vs auto-level is important to influence our cost levels,” “Flow’s complexity: flows’ complexity define auto-level vs auto-level influences future complexity increase slash decrease warehouse can handle,” “Market and demand dynamics: uncertainty and fluctuations define auto-level vs auto-level influences strategy for market and demand dynamics,” “Speed and leadtime requirements: leadtime requirements define choice of auto-level vs our auto-level influences leadtime promises,” “Tied-up capital: requirements on asset turnover control choice of auto-level vs auto-level influences targets for asset turnover,” “Assortment width: assortment width defines choice of auto-level vs automation level influences increase slash decrease of assortment width,” and “Growth and scalability: growth plans influences choice of automation level vs auto-level influences our growth speed.” The chart has the horizontal axis at the top, showing percentages from 0 to 100, segmented into 20 percent intervals, arranged from left to right. The vertical axis is on the right, labeled “Mean,” displaying mean numerical values of each bar arranged from bottom to top as 2.73, 3.00, 3.33, 3.53, 3.46, 3.53, 4.17, and 3.03. Each bar’s segments increase in order of influence from left to right, visually encoding the distribution of responses for each factor. The mean value for each factor is displayed on the right end of the corresponding bar. Bars are divided into colored segments according to survey responses. The legend at the bottom includes “Don’t know,” “1 (strategy slash situation influences automation decision to a very high degree),” “2,” “3,” “4 (influencing each other in similar degree),” “5,” “6,” and “7 (Automation level influences strategic choice in very high degree).” The lengths of the colored segments correspond to the percentage of responses in each category, arranged from left (lowest influence) to right (highest influence) for a visual comparison within each factor. The relative lengths of segments across bars show variation in response patterns, with some factors having larger proportions of high influence (dark blues) and others skewed toward lower influence (reds and blacks).Swedish retailers’ (n = 31) view on interdependence between firm strategy and implemented AWS implementation