MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS OF TRADE ENTERPRISE PRIVATE LABEL

Private Label Positioning:

Among major benefits private labels bring to the retailer, we focus on the retailer’s ability to coordinate the prices of both the national brand and its store brand counterpart. By using product-line pricing, the retailer can exploit the differentiated nature of the two brands. This paper investigates the retailer’s problem of positioning her private label and the subsequent pricing issues. Wh...

Institutionalization and the Effectiveness of Enterprise Architecture Management

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) has become a prominent discipline for managing increasingly complex Business/IT relationships in organizations. The more tangible aspects of EAM like modeling, planning, principles or governance structures are widely discussed and understood. However, institutionalizing EAM in an organization remains a challenging issue. Therefore, actually realized EAM ...

Decisions Regarding Private-label Production

Special Note: Chain retailers are very conscious of the need to carry only private-label models/styles that are easy and less expensive to produce so they can sell their private-label shoes at attractively lower prices than name brand athletic footwear. As a consequence of their efforts to order only models/styles that are simpler to produce, production run set-up costs for private-label pairs ...

Where Private Enterprise Can Help

Standardization as a Private Enterprise

Standardization of analytical methods in clinical chemistry is important because it facilitates interpretation of laboratory results. Many chemical determinations are now well standardized, but this is less common with immunoassays. Standardization requires availability of a primary standard and a reference method. Although standards are available for most clinically important analytes, referen...