Online purchases constitute about one tenth of US retail sales. The supply chains that support online retailing are fundamentally different from those that support traditional brick-and-mortar stores. Traditional solutions are not always appropriate to solve online retailing’s operations problems; thus, there is an opportunity to understand and improve these novel supply chains. One key charact...

A fuzzy-control-based Quick Response (QR) reorder scheme for seasonal apparel is being developed. The fuzzy-control scheme uses Mamdani inference logic. A stochastic computer simulation model of the apparel-retailing process is employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme vis-a-vis that of existing approaches. Background “Quick Response” (QR) for apparel retailing refers to the a...

The paper reports on the results of a five-month project utilizing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) along a fashion retailing supply chain. The supply chain included the fashion manufacturer Gerry Weber and department store retailer Kaufhof. The project identified numerous issues that should be addressed in a successful implementation of RFID including the technical choices and design of t...

Information and internet-based technologies have fostered new supply chain initiatives in food retailing but little research has evaluated productivity impacts. A ray-homothetic production function is estimated for supermarkets to investigate the productivity effects of key variables such as format, competitive position, self-distributing chain membership, unionization, and information technolo...

As the population diversifies in many North American cities due to increased immigration, ethnic retailing has become an important and increasingly visible component of the local retail economy. To date, business geographers have paid little attention to ethnic retailing. This paper attempts to redress this gap by providing a spatial analytical study of the demand for and supply of ethnic retai...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging technology for supply chain management suitable for the retail industry. Large distributing companies such as Wal-Mart, Tesco, and Target have adopted RFID for real-time tracking and efficient order assortment of fast moving products. An agriculture-based developing country with a huge population and strong internal consumption, Thailand has ...

using toys may be dangerous like other things. in many cases, children are exposed to injuries from the toys which need special protection. since many parts of toys are importing from other countries and many companies and persons are involved in the circle of its production, supply and retailing, determination of the liable person or allocating the liabilities among different persons in such c...