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logistics. The nature of logistics makes normal measures of productivity, based on an output/input concept, not always …, complementing conventional total productivity thinking. Highlights the main ingredients of strategic logistics performance. Develops … logistics. The competitive key battlegrounds include quality, productivity, speed and innovation, all linked to good business …
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silences in those discourses, as well as implications for logistics and management decision in a multicultural perspective.  …
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Provides a rationale for looking at logistics and cultural diversity from a global “intercultural” perspective, and … proposes this view as a potential tool for sensitizing logistics managers to cross‐ concerns. Concludes that any firm which …
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prioritisation for e-retailers’ home delivery logistics process efficacy improvement. Design/methodology/approach – The research was … of their home delivery logistics process in Chinese marketplace, and also referential to the other similar emerging … knowledge pool of e-retailers’ logistics performance improvement. Practical implications – The research findings guide …
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? Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports the illustrative case study of the German Port of Hamburg, one of the main … adoption of IoT technologies widely redesigns and improves the performance of all the main business process of the port … process redesign (BPR) must be planned strategically by the port management and implies the involvement of all the port …
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Aims to define the index of consumer sentiment (ICS) and the different aspects which influence it. To this end, uses the hypothetical starting point that the subjective perception of the consumer’s economic situation has more to do with aspects of lifestyle than with socio‐demographic or...
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the overall marketing strategy is what we call the Logistics Mix. This article presents a model that includes dimensions … of logistics service that are hypothesised to impact on the demand for industrial products, and it suggests that there …
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Discusses physical distribution and logistics strategies of European retailers. Argues that UK‐evolved strategies are …
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Spotlights the total approach to logistics in companies and indicates how it can provide a valid basis for marketing … improvement. Identifies what a total logistics approach can mean for corporate development. Chronicles that management theorists … emerging discipline of marketing logistics, but that there is some way to go before marketing logistics as a discipline is …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to observe how the Euro Car Parts (ECP) academy is helping the expanding business to recruit trained and willing employees. Design/methodology/approach – Examines the reasons for the academy, the form it takes and the results it is achieving. Findings...
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