Speed Mart 99 Malaysia - Retail Supply Chain

Chopra, S., & Meindl, P. (2012). Supply chain management: Strategy, planning, and operation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

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The most important component of Nordstrom's retail mix is its customer service. The retail environment is completely customer driven and giving the customer satisfaction in every possible manner is very important. The point of view that ‘Service Pays’ is accepted by the retailer today

List and explain all aspects of supply chain management. pg 416; week5 lecture, pg 4;

With over 3,000 stores in 6 countries and a network of over 16,000 vendors in 60 countries, TJX is able to offer consumers deep discounts on many top names in fashion apparel and home goods merchandise. However the Company does not like to be labeled as a “discount store.” Instead, TJX’s vision is to be a “global, off-price value retailer” with a mission to deliver the same brand name value and

W.C. Benton, J. (2010). Purchasing and Supply Chain Management (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Irwin.

It is widely known that logistics is the life blood of anything major. The logistics and transportation industry in the United

Logistics is one of the main functions within a company, and the supply chain is a complex and sometime fragile global endeavor dependent on a network of independent, yet interconnected, moving parts. It requires professional management. Supply chain professionals order the product, build it, move it, ship it, distribute it, and drive the coordination processes with marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing, finance, and information technology. In short, they make any business effort seem effortless.

Russell, R. S., & Taylor III, B. W. (2014). Operations and Supply Chain Management, 8th edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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The discount stores offer a variety of merchandise for the consumers, including items such as: electronics, hardware, jewelry and toys just to name a few. In 1988 the company opened their first supercenter. A supercenter offered all the merchandise that a discount store has, but also offered to the consumer a grocery store as well. Supercenters offer the consumer such merchandise as: bakery goods, fresh produce, deli foods and frozen foods as well. This became a very popular idea among consumers that they could go and pick up an item that is sold in the hardware department and also pick up a frozen pizza under the same roof. It eliminated the need to travel to various stores when one trip to a supercenter could provide the consumer with all the items needed.

Inditex ensures that its fashion is fast through its supply chain efforts. They have created new methods to enable store managers to order and display merchandise faster and added cargo routes for shipping goods. The company ships clothing straight from the factory to stores and makes two-thirds of its goods in Spain and nearby countries, compared to most competitors who manufacture most of their clothing in Asia. Inditex has their sales managers monitoring computers, which are reporting sales at every store around the world. When a garment does well or fails, they are able to quickly tell designers if they need to come up with new ideas. They also have generated

(Bowersox, D.J., Closs, D.J., and Cooper, M.B. (2010). Supply Chain Logistics Management. (3rd Edition) New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

1We would like to thank Shiming Deng for his valuable contributions to the preparation of this manual.