Short shelf‐life grocery goods present some of the biggest challenges for supply chain
management due to a high number of product variants, strict traceability requirements, short …

Many companies have automated their inventory management processes and now rely on
information systems when making critical decisions. However, if the information is …

In a supply chain environment, time delay has a significant impact on the success of
perishable products. A major concern is therefore aimed at development of a holistic …

Inventory record inaccuracy leads to ineffective replenishment decisions and deteriorates
supply chain performance. Conducting cycle counts (ie, periodic inventory auditing) is a …

Challenging existing ideas about not only what constitutes retail shrinkage, but also the
approach that should be adopted to deal with it, it critically examines how current …

A healthcare industrial vending system (IVS) represents a specific form of Vendor-Managed
Inventory (VMI) solution that links healthcare supply network participants to each other …

The purpose of this paper is to analysis the risk for antagonistic threats against transports in
EU in order to find patterns and trends. The research is based on a system-theoretical …

Edmund W. Schuster has held the appointment of director of the Affiliates Program in
Logistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently working on MIT Auto …

While the term 'shrinkage'has been in use for over 100 years to describe retail losses, there
continues to be little consensus on what it actually means and how it should be measured …

For more than 100 years the retail industry has relied primarily upon the term 'shrinkage'to
define how retail 'losses' are understood and controlled. There is, however, little consensus …