The offshore migration of fashion manufacturing from established markets to offshore countries, and the increasingly complex nature of fashion consumption has played a crucial role in transforming the way fashion is perceived in the contemporary world. Globalisation of the fashion industry has...

As a supply chain management initiative, category management has to date been the almost exclusive preserve of the grocery sector and, within that sector, limited to food categories. This paper proposes that the fashion industry might usefully follow the grocery industry's lead and implement...

Purpose – The use of multiple channels is increasingly an option for many products. Yet, despite their popularity, little is known in a systematic way about such channel structures. In particular, there is a lack of research in respect of the reasons why multiple channels of distribution...

Purpose – Small and medium‐sized companies often struggle to achieve sustainable growth or access wider markets. This insight from industry aims to describe the case of Scot Trout and Salmon a company that acts as a distribution hub for a number of small and medium‐sized enterprise (SME)...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to describe and illustrate aspects of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). Design/methodology/approach – The terms of first‐, second‐ and n ‐order supply chains are introduced. A first‐order supply chain denotes that a substantial part...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the relative effects of supply chain integration, supply chain information sharing and supply chain design on supply chain performance. Design/methodology/approach – Data collected from 125 manufacturing firms in Turkey are used...

Purpose – The goal of this research is to identify which service activities contribute most to customer satisfaction in the technical wholesale industry in the Baltic States. Design/methodology/approach – In order to obtain an understanding of customer service in the countries of Latvia,...

Purpose – The concept of the customer order decoupling point (CODP) has been used in many different contexts as an important structural concept for the traditional forward supply chain. The CODP is rarely explicitly applied in reverse supply chain management and the purpose of this paper is to...

Purpose – The paper seeks to examine the changing landscape of supply chain management, marketing channels of distribution, logistics and purchasing. Design/methodology/approach – The authors examine and take stock of the changing nature and landscape surrounding the related disciplines of...