In this paper, we study the optimal profit change in a manufacturer-led dual-channel supply chain under centralized decision-making and decentralized scenarios. The is composed of only single supplier, manufacturer, retailer, manufacturer plays leading role chain. Meanwhile, following conditions exist simultaneously: promotion levels retailers offline physical stores, compensation given by manu...

In spite of the popularity e-shopping, only 16% US adults have ordered groceries online, and 7 out 10 those who currently buy online do so at most twice a month. Understanding determinants e-grocery shopping is important for grocers, supply chain managers, urban planners. this context, we first explore how deliveries from been changing over time. From our analysis 2009 2017 National Household T...

Contamination of food and feed by aflatoxins has become a worldwide cause public health concern due to its significant impact on human crop market value. The present study aimed assess the aflatoxin contents maize groundnut from stores warehouses in Giwa community, Kaduna State, Nigeria. A total ninety (90) grain samples were collected between October December 2020 analyzed for using Enzyme-Lin...

Mobile and wireless (M&W) technologies have great potential to improve process efficiency and effectiveness within retail stores, but their application is still very limited. One of the main reasons explaining this situation is considered to be the lack of confidence in the actual benefits and, therefore, in the return on investment. As a matter of facts, activities in this...

We consider preventive transshipments between two stores in a decentralized system with two demand subperiods. Replenishment orders are made before the first subperiod, and the stores may make transshipments to one another between the subperiods. We prove that the transshipment decision has a dominant strategy, called a control-band conserving transfer policy, under which each store chooses a q...

How will consumption patterns change when consumers move from brick-and-mortar to Internet markets? If consumers purchase more niche products online than at brick-andmortar stores, does this have something to do with the channel or is this solely due to selection effects: the types of consumers who decide to use the Internet channel or the types of products that consumers select to purchase onl...

This paper presents the adaptable and flexible architecture of a middleware framework for the persistence and querying of Java objects. The framework is composed of two sub-frameworks, each responsible for one aspect: persistence and queries. The persistence framework considers two kinds of objects: Memory instances (MI), which represent Java objects holding the data to be made persistent, and ...

OBJECTIVE This study used a market-basket approach to examine the availability and cost of a standard food shopping list (R-TFP) vs a healthier food shopping list (H-TFP) in the grocery stores used by a sample of 23 families of young children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). METHODS The researchers used frequency counts to measure availability. The average cost of the R-TFP and H-TFP was...

Background The Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) approached People that Deliver (PtD) for support in addressing supply chain management (SCM) workforce challenges at its central and regional medical stores (CMS/RMS). PtD leveraged the expertise of member organizations CapacityPlus and SCMS to provide technical assistance in planning, deployment, training and retention of th...

Increasing competition (whether for-profit or nonprofit) is forcing businesses to pay much more attention to satisfying customers, including by providing strong customer service. It may help the reader to notice the role of customer service in the overall context of product or service development and management. Wal-Mart is a chain of retail stores operated by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. an American ...