Managing Retail Productivity and Profitability

Managing Retail Productivity and Profitability
Author: Dominic Laffy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349246212

Managing productivity and profitability in retailing has taken on a particular role since the onset of the recession of the late 1980s. Productivity can be improved simply by rationalising low performing stores, merchandise ranges and by reducing the number of suppliers and employees. However, this is not necessarily a long term solution. The purpose of this text is to propose a means by which a more proactive approach may be taken to improving both productivity and profitability. The book develops a model based upon management ratios typically used in retailing businesses for planning and control purposes. The model encourages the use of existing performance data to evaluate overall company productivity and profitability together with performance characteristics of individual functions. An additional feature of the approach is the facility to explore the impact of changes to the retail offer suggested by customer research responses. To facilitate the use of the concepts and the model used, a disk is also available, containing the application of the model to a number of the case studies and a facility for the user to input their own data.

Retailing in the 21st Century

Retailing in the 21st Century
Author: Manfred Krafft
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2009-12-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540720030

With crisp and insightful contributions from 47 of the world’s leading experts in various facets of retailing, Retailing in the 21st Century offers in one book a compendium of state-of-the-art, cutting-edge knowledge to guide successful retailing in the new millennium. In our competitive world, retailing is an exciting, complex and critical sector of business in most developed as well as emerging economies. Today, the retailing industry is being buffeted by a number of forces simultaneously, for example the growth of online retailing and the advent of ‘radio frequency identification’ (RFID) technology. Making sense of it all is not easy but of vital importance to retailing practitioners, analysts and policymakers.

Retailing

Retailing
Author: Patrick M. Dunne
Publisher: Thomson South-Western
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Intended for a first course in retailing, this book takes a practical approach, focusing on what someone entering the field would need to know. The theory is discussed and explained, but not analyzed.

To Amend the Fair Labor Standards Act

To Amend the Fair Labor Standards Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1294
Release: 1959
Genre: Minimum wage
ISBN:

Considers S. 1046 and miscellaneous related bills, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase hourly minimum wage, extend coverage to certain categories of workers, and exclude certain other worker categories.

Monthly Labor Review

Monthly Labor Review
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2004-02
Genre: Industrial relations
ISBN:

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

The New Science of Retailing

The New Science of Retailing
Author: Marshall Fisher
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2010-06-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422110575

Retailers today are drowning in data but lacking in insight. They have so much information at their disposal that they struggle with both how to sort through it, and how to add science to their decision-making process without blunting the art that they correctly believe is a key ingredient of their success. This book reveals how retailers can use data to manage everything from strategic assortment planning, inventory management, and markdowns to improve store-level execution. This data-driven approach to the retail supply chain leads to far greater and faster inventory turns, far fewer and lower discounted goods and services, and better profit margins. The authors also tease out the personnel issues and the organizational implications of this approach.