Centralised grocery supply chain planning: improved exception management

Centralised supply chain planning at IKEA

Purpose — The purpose of this paper is to analyse the prerequisites and effects of centralised supply chain planning at IKEA, and to explore how the planning process, planning system, and planning organization make up a centralised planning approach. Design/method/approach — The paper is based on a longitudinal case study of IKEA's implementation of global supply chain planning. The literature ...

Grocery Supply-Chain Management: MyGROCER innovative business and technology framework

The grocery industry is one of the largest and most important industries in the modern marketplace. Over the past seventy years, supermarkets and grocery stores have evolved into some of the most convenient and diverse businesses in the world. This evolution would not have been possible without effective supply chain management. In reality, nowadays supply chains -especially these of Fast Movin...

Quantitative Models for Centralised Supply Chain Coordination

Supply Chain Considerations for Electronic Grocery Shopping

The main hypothesis of the dissertation is that “e-grocery with home delivery can be more efficient than supermarket retailing handling a similar volume of sales”. The e-grocery business should be seen as an assembly industry producing shopping baskets. Only in this way can the new electronic channel work efficiently. The e-grocery business is usually seen as a supermarket copied into an electr...

Structural Supply Chain Collaboration Among Grocery Manufacturers

Both academicians and practitioners have extensively explored the important topic of supply chain collaboration. Most research, however, has focused on unilateral coordination via pricing signals or tactical opportunities such as Vendor Managed Inventory or Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR). Our research fills a gap in the current literature by quantifying the opportu...