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E-Fulfillment and Multi-Channel Distribution ĂąâŹâ A Review
This review addresses the specific supply chain management issues of Internet fulfillment in a multi-channel environment. It provides a systematic overview of managerial planning tasks and reviews corresponding quantitative models. In this way, we aim to enhance the understanding of multi-channel e-fulfillment and to identify gaps between relevant managerial issues and academic literature, thereby indicating directions for future research. One of the recurrent patterns in todayĂąâŹâąs e-commerce operations is the combination of ĂąâŹËbricks-and-clicksĂąâŹâą, the integration of e-fulfillment into a portfolio of multiple alternative distribution channels. From a supply chain management perspective, multi-channel distribution provides opportunities for serving different customer segments, creating synergies, and exploiting economies of scale. However, in order to successfully exploit these opportunities companies need to master novel challenges. In particular, the design of a multi-channel distribution system requires a constant trade-off between process integration and separation across multiple channels. In addition, sales and operations decisions are ever more tightly intertwined as delivery and after-sales services are becoming key components of the product offering.Distribution;E-fulfillment;Literature Review;Online Retailing
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A survey of simulation techniques in commerce and defence
Despite the developments in Modelling and Simulation (M&S) tools and techniques over the past years, there has been a gap in the M&S research and practice in healthcare on developing a toolkit to assist the modellers and simulation practitioners with selecting an appropriate set of techniques. This study is a preliminary step towards this goal. This paper presents some results from a systematic literature survey on applications of M&S in the commerce and defence domains that could inspire some improvements in the healthcare. Interim results show that in the commercial sector Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) has been the most widely used technique with System Dynamics (SD) in second place. However in the defence sector, SD has gained relatively more attention. SD has been found quite useful for qualitative and soft factors analysis. From both the surveys it becomes clear that there is a growing trend towards using hybrid M&S approaches
Analysing B2B electronic procurement benefits â Information systems perspective
This paper presents electronic procurement benefits identified in four case companies. The
benefits achieved in the case companies were classified according to taxonomies from the
Information Systems discipline. Existing taxonomies were combined into a new taxonomy
which allows evaluation of the complex e-procurement impact. Traditional financial-based
methods failed to capture the nature of e-procurement benefits. In the new taxonomy, eprocurement
benefits are classified using scorecard dimensions (strategic, tactical and
operational), which allows the identification of areas of e-procurement impact, in addition
the benefits characteristic is captured (tangible, intangible, financial and non-financial)
Achieving Omnichannel Implementation: A Resource Orchestration Analysis
Brick-and-mortar (B&M) firms are increasingly required to provide a seamless omnichannel experience for customers across channels. However, when integrating online and offline channels to provide seamless omni-experiences, B&M firms often face challenges in effectively orchestrating their scarce assets between these competing channels. Therefore, we ask, How to manage channel conflicts to achieve a consistent omnichannel experience. We adopted a resource orchestration perspective as a theoretical sense-making lens to address our question, based on a case study of successful omnichannel integration at a leading B&M firm in Asia. We found that B&M firms can achieve omnichannel consistency by structuring centralized leadership resource and centralized IT resource; bundling these resources to create sustainable competitive collaboration capability; and leveraging this capability to achieve omnichannel consistency. Our study contributes to omnichannel integration literature and provides practical guidelines to B&M managers for a successful omnichannel implementation
Schedules, Calendars and Agendas
Time management instruments such as schedules, calendars and agendas are obvious tools to organise individual and collective action. Besides being of great practical significance in the western world and beyond, these tools are remarkable in that they are rarely questioned by those who are governed by them. Yet, they are tools and as such they can be used by management in organisations. This paper will explore: -why these time instruments are much legs visible than the task itself, -to what extent they are knowingly used by management, and -if their effectiveness is somehow limited to certain activities. It is argued that the unobtrusiveness oftime instruments is related to the natural distinction between content and context. Tasks, intellectual or practical, lead the actors to focus on content. Time management instruments appear to belong to context instead. Hence, they are normally taken for granted, framing the problem.Time; management
Consumer-driven innovation networks and e-business management systems
This paper examines the use of consumer-driven innovation networks within the UK food-retailing industry using qualitative interview-based research analysed within an economic framework. This perspective revealed that, by exploiting information gathered directly from their customers at point-of-sale and data mining, supermarkets are able to identify consumer preferences and co-ordinate new product development via innovation networks. This has been made possible through their information control of the supply-chain established through the use of transparent inventory management systems. As a result, supermarketsâ e-business systems have established new competitive processes in the UK food-processing and retailing industry and are an example of consumer-driven innovation networks. The informant-based qualitative approach also revealed that trust-based transacting relationships operated differently from those previously described in the literature
The Effects of E-commerce on the Structure of Intermediation
The paper questions the notion that the diffusion of electronic commerce will lead to disintermediation. Rather than interpreting intermediation as a single service it is pointed out that intermediaries can provide a number of services. The analysis based on the New Institutional Economics, Market Microstructure Theory, and Information Economics shows that the three intermediation services studied are, generally, not under threat by the diffusion of electronic commerce. The overall effects on intermediation depend on the relevance of these services relative to others (e.g. order processing) which are supposed to become obsolete.B2C eCommerce, intermediation, new institutional economics
THE INDIANA ENTERPRISE ZONE PROGRAM: FISCAL IMPACT OF A JOB CREATION TAX CREDIT
This paper estimated the fiscal impact of a job creation tax credit, a proposed incentive for establishments participating in the Indiana enterprise zone program. State unemployment insurance files were utilized with GIS to obtain enterprise zone data. Labor demand and labor supply were estimated. Job creation due to the credit was calculated from empirical results.Community/Rural/Urban Development, Public Economics,
Problem formulation and organizational decision-making : biases and assumptions underlying alternative models of strategic problem formulation
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RFID in the supply chain: lessons from European early adopters
Purpose Radio frequency identification (RFID) is increasingly being presented as
a technology with the potential to improve supply chain performance, but
empirical evidence from early adopters is sparse. This paper aims to rectify
this scarcity and contribute to a more informed discussion in and between
academic and practitioner communities. Design/Methodology/Approach The paper is
based on a conceptual model of factors influencing the success of adoption
efforts. It then reports the results of a survey of 612 European supply chain
managers, focusing on the 128 respondents who have begun RFID trials. Findings A
significant influence on operational deployment is the presence of mandates from
key customers requiring the technologyâs use. Customer mandates also impact the
anticipated benefits of a faster sales cycle and of enhanced systems
integration, though the relationships are complex. By contrast, greater cost
reduction benefits are anticipated in two industries where mandates are less
common â industrial goods and logistics. Perceived organizational innovativeness
positively impacts anticipated ROI from RFID. Companies adopting a âslap and
shipâ approach are less likely to anticipate pricing benefits than those
integrating RFID into enterprise systems Research Limitations/Implications The
limitations of the paper include the limited sample size of early adopters. In
addition, qualitative research is needed into RFID supply chain applications and
into different approaches to IS integration of RFID, to inform future survey
work. Practical Implications This paper informs supply chain managers and senior
decision makers who are examining the potential of RFID technology. It offers
guidance on what issues to look for when adopting this technology, approaches to
take and the benefits that might be accrued. Originality/Valuer This paper
offers a major contribution to understanding the current status of the adoption
of RFID in European supply chains. This understanding is put in the context of
the wider literatures on supply chain management and the adoption of information
systems and te
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