Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 4 Issue 2

THE ROLE AND STRUCTURE OF DISTRIBUTION: PART 1 : MARKETING STRATEGIES

Jan de Somogyi

By international standards, British retailers are relatively efficient. However, their performance could be threatened both by the present recession and by the growing complexity…

Learning to work with inflation: A SYSTEM OF TIGHTER FINANCIAL CONTROLS

Norman Highton

It is no news to retailers that their margins have been effectively restricted by a combination of Price Code regulations and customer resistance. Indeed, escalating operating…

Building up an order processing system: The advantage of telephone selling

JN Davis, RW Kirby

In the writers' view, an order processing system can best be built up by identifying the facilities required, and considering methods of order entry. They then discuss the…

Mini‐computer applications in warehousing

Gordon Fisher

The writer contends that the mini‐computer provides a very substantial potential area of application for the processing of information, management control and physical control of…