Retail Supply Chain Management Quantitative Models and Empirical Studies
It is with great pleasure that I can write a foreword for the second edition of the book Retail Supply Chain Management: Quantitative Models and Empirical Studies. I want to congratulate the editors, Narendra Agrawal and Stephen Smith, for compiling this impressive volume. Like its first edition,...
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/57210 |
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| Summary: | It is with great pleasure that I can write a foreword for the second edition of the
book Retail Supply Chain Management: Quantitative Models and Empirical
Studies. I want to congratulate the editors, Narendra Agrawal and Stephen Smith,
for compiling this impressive volume. Like its first edition, this volume continues to
be a book that provides a solid reference on research on retail supply chains and
inspires new research on this subject.
Retailing forms the part of the supply chain that interfaces between the ultimate
consumers and the rest of the supply chain. As such, it is often viewed as the part of
the supply chain where the real demands of the consumers first show up. Whether
we are talking about a physical retail store or a virtual store, the consumer demands
that occur here drive the demands in the rest of the supply chain. So in that sense, it
is like the frontier of all supply chains... |
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