1st Edition

Fashion Retail Supply Chain Management A Systems Optimization Approach

By Tsan-Ming Choi Copyright 2014
    122 Pages
    by CRC Press

    122 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Fashion Retail Supply Chain Management: A Systems Optimization Approach is a comprehensive reference source that provides the state-of-the-art findings on many important emerging research issues related to retail supply chain management and optimization problems. The book takes an explicit systems approach, and discusses retailled fashion supply chain coordination mechanisms and consumer market informationdriven fashion retail supply chain models, as well as suggesting future research avenues.

    This volume will be of interest not only to those involved in the fashion industry, but also to academics and practitioners in the wider fields of business, manufacturing engineering, systems engineering and supply chain management.

    Editorial board
    Preface
    About the author

    1 Fashion retail supply chain management –An introduction
    1.1 What is fashion retail supply chain management?
    1.2 Overview of this book
    References

    2 Customer service management in fashion retail supply chains
    2.1 Introduction
    2.2 Quantitative customer service performance measures
    2.3 Retail service quality scale
    2.3.1 Conceptual model and related studies
    2.3.2 The RSQS based systems optimization model
    2.3.3 Numerical example
    2.3.4 Numerical sensitivity analysis
    2.4 Conceptual framework: Deming’s Quality Management Framework
    2.5 Conclusion
    References
    Appendix: Tables of the numerical analysis

    3 Inventory models and coordination in fashion retail supply chains
    3.1 Introduction
    3.2 The EOQ model-based retail inventory problem
    3.2.1 An illustrative example
    3.2.2 Optimal inventory decisions and ordering frequency
    3.2.3 Numerical example
    3.3 The newsvendor model-based retail inventory problem
    3.3.1 An illustrative fast fashion retailing example
    3.3.2 Profit maximization model
    3.3.3 A numerical example
    3.3.4 Remarks
    3.4 Coordination in fashion retail supply chain systems
    3.4.1 EOQ model based inventory planning
    3.4.2 Newsvendor model-based inventory planning
    3.5 Sensitivity analysis
    3.5.1 The EOQ-based model
    3.5.2 The newsvendor problem-based model
    3.6 Conclusion
    References
    Appendix: Tables of the numerical analysis

    4 Efficient consumer response in fashion retail supply chain systems
    4.1 Introduction
    4.2 Basic analytical model
    4.3 Profit analysis for the fashion retailer
    4.4 All-win situation
    4.5 Supply chain coordination
    4.6 Numerical analysis
    4.7 Conclusion
    References
    Appendix: Tables of the numerical analysis

    5 New product selection in fashion retail supply chains
    5.1 Introduction
    5.2 Basic model
    5.3 Analysis: Scenario one
    5.4 Analysis: Scenario two
    5.5 Numerical analysis
    5.5.1 Scenario one
    5.5.2 Scenario two
    5.6 Conclusion
    References
    Appendix: Tables of the numerical analysis

    6 Mean-risk analysis for fashion retail supply chain information systems projects
    6.1 Introduction
    6.2 Problem formulation
    6.3 Mean-variance analysis
    6.3.1 Model details
    6.3.2 Example 1
    6.3.3 Example 2
    6.4 Mean-semi-variance approach
    6.5 Safety-first objective
    6.6 Information system portfolio
    6.7 Conclusion
    References

    7 Fashion retail supply chain management – Concluding remarks
    7.1 Managerial insights
    7.2 Future research directions
    References
    Subject index

    Biography

    Tsan-Ming Choi