Retail Supply Chain Management

Buy the original books to support the authors!	Book Title	:	Retail Supply Chain Management
	Edition	:	N/A
	Author(s)	:	James B. Ayers, Mary Ann Odegaard
	Page	:	448 Pages
	Year Published	:	2008
	Publisher	:	Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
	ISBN	:	978‑0‑8493‑9052‑4
	File Size	:	5.05 MB

Book Description:
      This book is a resource for managers, strategists, and any others responsible for retail supply chains. These supply chains embrace brick-and-mortar stores as well as distributors, manufacturers, and providers of a wide range of supply chain– related services. For trading partners in retail to operate as a supply chain, rather than individual companies, they will need new approaches for performing the tasks necessary for supply chain success. These tasks include the following:

1. Designing supply chains for strategic advantage. This task creates “business models” that erect barriers to competition.
2. Implementing collaborative relationships inside the organization. Specialization produces local optimums but substandard service and profits at the company level.
3. Forging supply chain partnerships with trading partners up and down the supply chain. This is an “unnatural act” but increasingly a competitive “must” as companies rely on outside partners.
4. Managing supply chain information. The claims for new software confound potential users. Confusion is due to the presence of many providers and the difficulties of evaluating their claims.
5. Making money from the supply chain. Process improvement aimed at cost reduction retains its importance, but processes have to be defined along the supply chain, not at the individual company, level.

Successful retailers spread prosperity back through their supply base. To that end, the authors have formed their own partnership. Our collaboration brings together two skill sets: one in operations and another in managing retail businesses. Our mission is to match the challenges and opportunities in the retail industry with the solutions available from the SCM discipline. Managers have claimed they are besieged with so-called solutions from a multitude of advocates. Their challenges are sorting out which solutions to pursue and communicating to others up and down the chain. This book should ease the task of responding to both challenges.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1	Defining the Retail Supply Chain.
Chapter 2	Success in a Retail Business.
Chapter 3	Types of Retail Supply Chain Businesses.
Chapter 4	A Changing World: Moving Toward Comparative Advantage.
Chapter 5	Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and the Retail Industry.
Chapter 6	Drivers of Retail Supply Chain Change.
Chapter 7	Paths to the Customer.
Chapter 8	Supply Chain Risk.
Chapter 9	Retail Supply Chain Metrics.
Chapter 10	Meeting the Needs of Supply Chain Decision Makers.
Chapter 11	Product Types—Value to the Customer.
Chapter 12	Businesses Inside the Business.
Chapter 13	Activity Systems and Process Definition.
Chapter 14	Retail Supply Chain Management—Skills Required.
Chapter 15	Organizing to Improve Retail Supply Chain Performance.
Chapter 16	Collaboration with Supply Chain Partners.
Chapter 17	The Demand-Driven Supply Chain.
Chapter 18	Product Tracking Along Retail Supply Chains.
Chapter 19	Understanding Supply Chain Costs.
Chapter 20	Barriers to Addressing Root Causes for Cost.
Chapter 21	Multicompany Collaboration to Reduce Costs—Who, What, AND How.
Chapter 22	Retail Return Loops.
Glossary
Bibliography
Index