Case studies retailers

The information was compiled from paper and on-line research and from direct phone conversations and meetings with industry representatives. The more comprehensive overview of case studies of company substitutions for brominated flame retardants demonstrates both the complexity and feasibility of implementing safer alternatives. Other case studies show how leading retailers are moving to phase-out hazardous materials and how some chemical industries are researching and implementing Green Chemistry alternatives. 

The case study for two merino wool apparel items showed for the first time the relative contributions of each phase in the full life cycle across multiple impact or resource use categories. In this assessment, socks and a long-sleeved T-shirt garment were produced from NZ merino wool, with processing and manufacture involving facilities in China, Mexico, Vietnam and the US for retail in the US or Europe. For the GWP impact using biophysical allocation, production on farm represented one-third to half of the life cycle GHG emissions, while processing was 30—35% of the total. 

Wamba, S., Lefebvre, L., Bendavid, Y. and Lefebvre, E., 2008. E q)loring the impact of RFID technology and the EPC network on mobile B2B eCommerce A case study in the retail industry. International Journal of Production Economics 112(2), 614-629. 

Across the Web, consumers today post ratings and review data about products. This near real-time data is a great opportunity for a company to understand customer sentiment and share the information with retail customers. In the case of Newell Rubbermaid, it enabled its team to leverage immediate feedback from consumers to identify an issue and quickly respond to ensure that the launch was a success. Prior to the use of this type of data, brands faced a 7- to 14-day latency to receive and understand consumer data. In the next case study, we share how Newell Rubbermaid, a leader in the use of... 

As can be seen from Table 1, summary characteristics of the case studies spanned a variety of business types, from micro businesses to large international organisations and covered a range of sectors including manufacturing, service organisations and retail. Two public sector organisations were included. 

Three case studies are presented in this section. The first two studies desalbe the application of conceptual profiling to High Street pharmacy retailer brands and to the development of a derived index of fit-to-brand in the Single Malt Scotch Whisky category. The third study explores the relationship between our derived index of fit-to-brand and new product sales volumes. 

Although this case study was undertaken for MMR s own internal purposes, the names of the retailers are not disclosed.)... 

End-to-end communication among trading partners minimizes the bullwhip effect, which results in decreases in inventory at all levels in the supply chain. VICS conducted a survey of retail companies using CPFR pilot programs in 1998-1999. They reported that due to CPFR there was an 80% increase in sales with the CPFR partners, 10% reduction in inventory, improved fill rates, and near 100% service levels. One of the large and best practices of CPFR implementations has been between P G and Wal-Mart. Several CPFR implementations between other companies are presented as case studies in the VICS website. 

Mini-case study Milo s Home Improvement was recently named as an authorized distributor of lawn tractors by the Dear John Company (DJC— whose advertising proclaims, "You ll love our tractors so much you won t care if she leaves you for someone who s not so attached to lawn care.") Milo s retail network covers the Southeastern United States. You are the newly hired logistics analyst for Milo s, and you ve been asked to evaluate the company s current replenishment policies for optional accessories to support lawn tractors. 

Mini-case study You are the new operations manager for the Northeast regional distribution center (RDC) of office supply retailer StapleMax. The distribution center (DC) you mange is located in Carlisle, PA. You have been asked by your new boss, the VP of Logistics, to evaluate inventory replenishment options for a set of stock-keeping units (SKUs)... 

Goworek, H., 2010. An investigation into product development processes for UK fashion retailers A multiple case study. J. Fash. Mark. Manage. 14 (4), 648—662. 

To determine changes in water-holding capacity and flavor as affected by CLA supplementation, Wiegand et al. (18) studied these characteristics of chops over retail storage time. They observed no differences in water-holding capacity and hpid oxidation [thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS)] of loin chops over a 28-d self-service case study. 

The method is a case study, an adequate procedure for the exploratory character of the research (Tripodi et al, 1981). The studied cases are established alliances among companies of the beef supply chain, set by producers (individual or coordinated by a producers association), abattoirs and retailers. One case study was held in Brazil, and the other one, in the UK. 

CASE STUDY. A small retail establishment put in a computerized point-of-sale (POS) system consisting of five POS stations plus five administrative stations. The entire system was expensive and first-class. A complete system backup was done antomaticaUy every evening. The company appended each backup to the tape until the tape was fnll, then started a new tape. No data was ever erased, nor was a tape ever reused. The company that installed the hardware provided a backnp checklist which was followed religionsly for 18 months. Then a mechanical failure of the server s hard drive resulted in complete data loss. The repaired server and the tapes were shipped to us for restoration. No one on location had ever done a restore, and everyone was afraid to try—they did not want to be responsible for a disaster. Of the 500 perfectly done backnps, 2 were restorable. The most recent good backup was 40 days old. This company did 800 line items of business a day, and every line item had to be individ-nally reentered. 

The optimization model presented in this chapter was developed to design a supply chain distribution network for a consumer goods company located on a Caribbean island. This company is a major global competitor in its area, selling approximately 20 billion per year worldwide. The company has markets in more than 150 countries, and its brands are in first or second position in most of these markets. The country analyzed in this case study has sales of approximately 86 million per year. Its market includes 71 customers (66 retailers and 5 independent distributors), and it receives products from four manufacturing plants (all outside this country). To distribute the demand in this region, the company owns one distribution center located on this island. 

The CleanCo case (Case study 2.3) also shows that our focal firm s sales organisation has identified two significant types of buying behaviour by its retail customers volume driven and value driven. 

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