Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Retail Industry

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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.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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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
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DO  - 10.2991/icibet-14.2014.59
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