Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Retail Industry
- DOI
- 10.2991/icibet-14.2014.59How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- sustainable supply chain, retail industry, strategy
- Abstract
With the increasingly intense competition in the retail market and the higher expectations of consumer, it is difficult to assure the healthy and stable development of retail enterprises simply by enlarging the amount of sales . Therefore, effective cost control is an important method for the development of retail industry and reasonable supply chain management is a strategy choice for retail cost control. The traditional supply chain management attached too much importance on economic factors. However, it accumulated massive environmental and social problems and seriously affected the healthy and stable development of retail enterprises. This requires the idea of sustainable development be studied into supply chain management and sustainable supply chain management be carried on, which has a strategic significance for the development of each main enterprise of retail industry. Based on the characteristics of retail industry, this paper analyses the necessity of implementing sustainable supply chain management, and points out deficit of the traditional retail chain management .It provides the theoretical basis for proper sustainable supply chain management and thus give polices to reshape the supply chain management.
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- © 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jun Han AU - Yi Guo PY - 2014/02 DA - 2014/02 TI - Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Retail Industry BT - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology PB - Atlantis Press SP - 221 EP - 225 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icibet-14.2014.59 DO - 10.2991/icibet-14.2014.59 ID - Han2014/02 ER -