Consumer Driven Electronic Transformation: Applying New Technologies to Enthuse Consumers and Transform the Supply Chain

By Adam P. Vrechopoulos and Georgios J. Doukidis

PART 1: EMERGING TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT.- Improvement Opportunities in Retail Logistics.- A Dynamic Real-time Vehicle Routing System for Distribution Operations.- Bargaining and Alliances in Supply Chains .- Last-mile Supply Chain Integration: Easy Connection and Information Exchange between Suppliers and Retailers.- Extending ECR into Product Innovation.- PART 2: MULTICHANNEL RETAILING: RELATIONSHIPS, INTEGRATION AND ELECTRONIC TRANSFORMATIONS.- Multichannel Retailing and Brand Policy.- Developing Alternative Store Layouts for Internet Retailing .- In Search for Viable e-Solutions.- PART 3: BEYOND CPFR: DEFINING THE FUTURE OF SUPPLY CHAIN COLLABORATION.- On Shelf Availability: An Examination of the Extent, the Causes and the Efforts to Address Retail Out-of-Stocks.- Increasing Shelf Availability through Internet-Based Information Sharing and Collaborative Store Ordering .- Towards the Development of an Algorithm to Discover Out-Of-Shelf Situations.- Food Value Chain Analysis.- PART 4: BEYOND RFID: SUPPORTING SUPPLY-CHAIN MANAGEMENT WITH INTELLIGENT TAGGING.- Turning Signals into Profits in the RFID-Enabled Supply Chain.- Shopping in the 21st century: Embedding Technology in the Retail Arena.- Towards 'Smarter' Supply and Demand-Chain Collaboration Practices enabled by RFID Technology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642061494
• ISBN13: 9783642061493
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"