The increase in the Brazilian consumer market in recent years has allowed the opening of new stores, increasing price competition and diversifying the product offering. However, finding the best combination of price, quality and services, considering the cost of transport between stores is a very hard task. The complexity of the problem increases when more products and stores were involved. Thi...

This paper sets out a general framework for store sales evaluation and prediction. The of retail chain with multiple stores are first decomposed into five components, then each componen...

BACKGROUND Environmental factors such as the availability of local-area food stores may be important contributors to the increasing rate of obesity among U.S. adolescents. METHODS Repeated cross-sections of individual-level data on adolescents drawn from the Monitoring the Future surveys linked by geocode identifiers to data on food store availability were used to examine associations between...

the increasing emphasis on supply chain management (scm) has led researchers to rethink models, constructs, and frameworks for quality management (qm) that have been developed for the field of operations management. in this paper, within the framework of a structural model we investigate how these two supply chain management-related quality practices (customer focus and supplier quality managem...

In the context of “new retail“, various new retail models have appeared in market one after another, such as unmanned retail, and convenience stores, which are based on a model industry. At present, stores still to deal with challenges operations, including difficulty landing site selection, immature technology, low public awareness. The most important issue is supply chain cost control. It see...

When the online stores and the logistics service providers make decision alone, as trade off phenomenon exists, inventory costs achieve the minimum while transportation costs are not the minimum or the opposite situation occurs. When implementing inventory and transportation integrated optimization, the profit of the whole supply chain and the stores increases, while the profit of the logistics...