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Logistics and Retail Management
Insights into Current Practice and Trends from Leading Experts)
By: John Fernie & Leigh Sparks
Published by: Kogan Page
Paperback 240 Pages
Throughout the last decade there have been steady, incremental improvements and relationship changes in retail logistics. These changes have been fundamental to business efficiency and it is now widely recognized that logistics excellence provides competitive advantage. Emphasis is now on minimizing time to market, maximizing on-self availability, continuously replenishing stock and utilizing technology to transform the retail supply chain. Internationalization and e-commerce have also presented challenges for logisticians. The key to logistics excellence is relationships.
This fully updated second edition brings together well-known academics and practitioners to share their research, ideas and experience of retail logistics in the 21st century. It includes contributions on:
· Retail logistics: changes and challenges;
· Relationships in the supply chain;
· Market orientation and
supply chain management in the fashion industry;
· Fashion logistics and Quick Response;
· Logistics in Tesco;
· Temperature-controlled supply chains;
· Rethinking efficient replenishment in the grocery sector;
· The development of e-tail logistics;
· Transforming technologies: retail exchange and RFID;
· Enterprise Resource Planning.
Logistics and Retail Management is essential reading for retail and logistics managers, academics, students and consultants.
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