List of Tables Table No Title Page No 2.1 Market Segments in Indian retail 25 2.2 Organized retail penetration levels 25 3.1 Pattern of control in ABC analysis 58 3.2 Various selective inventory control systems 59 6.1 Sample Distribution based on the position in Supply Chain 118 6.2 Sample Distribution of Manufacturers 119 6.3 Sample Distribution of the Retail Stores 120 6.4 Sample Distribution based on Size of the Organization 120 6.5.1 Reliability Statistics of IT Usage in forecasts in the retail sector 122 6.5.2 Extent of IT Usage in generating demand & forecasts 122 6.5.3 Cross tabulation of the extent of IT usage in generating forecasts 123 6.5.4 Chi Square Test of extent of IT usage in generating forecasts 123 6.6.1 Usage of IT in checking finished goods inventory level 124 6.6.2 Cross tabulation of the extent of usage of IT in checking finished goods inventory 6.6.3 Chi Square analysis of the extent of usage of IT in checking finished goods inventory 125 125 6.7.1 Extent of usage of IT in checking vendor's performance history 126 6.7.2 Cross tabulation of the extent of usage of IT in checking vendor's performance history 6.7.3 Chi Square test of the extent of usage of IT in checking vendor performance history 127 127 6.8.1 Extent of usage of IT in accessing inventory database 128 6.8.2 Cross tabulation on the extent of usage of IT in accessing Inventory database 6.8.3 Chi Square test on the extent of usage of IT in checking Inventory database 129 129
6.9.1 Extent of usage of IT in synchronization with 130 6.9.2 Cross tabulation on the extent of usage of IT in synchronization with other 6.9.3 Chi Square test of the extent of usage of IT in synchronization with other partners 6.10.1 Reliability test of the degree of usage of technology to synchronize with other 6.10.2 Degree of usage of Electronic Cash Registers to interface with 6.10.3 Cross tabulation of extent of use of cash registers to interface with other 131 132 133 134 135 6.10.4 Chi Square Tests of Extent of usage of cash registers to interface 135 6.11.1 Degree of Usage of RFIDs to Interface with Supply chain partners 136 6.11.2 Cross tabulation of the extent of use of RFID to interface with 6.11.3 Chi Square tests on extent of RFID usage to interface with supply chain partners 137 137 6.12.1 Degree of usage of EDIs to interface with 138 6.12.2 Cross tabulation of the usage of EDIs to interface with supply chain partners 6.12.3 Chi square test of the degree of usage of EDIs to interface with 6.13.1 Degree of Usage of Quick Response Logistics to Interface with Supply chain partners 6.13.2 Cross tabulation of the Usage of Quick Response Logistics to Interface with Supply chain partners 6.13.3 Chi Square test of the degree of usage of Quick Response Logistics to interface with 139 139 141 141 142 6.14.1 Degree of Usage of DSS to Interface with Supply chain partners 142 6.14.2 Cross tabulation of the degree of usage of DSS to interface with 143 6.14.3 Chi Square test of the degree of usage of DSS to interface with 144
6.15.1 Reliability Statistics of Frequency of Occurrence of Irregularities in a supply chain 6.15.2 Frequency of Occurrence of orders becoming unpredictable 145 6.15.3 Cross tabulation of the frequency of occurrences of orders becoming unpredictable 6.15.4 Chi Square analysis of the frequency of occurrence of orders 6.16.1 Frequency of occurrence of increase in lead time to respond to the becoming unpredictable market 6.16.2 Cross tabulation of the frequency of occurrence of increase of the lead time to respond to the market 6.16.3 Chi Square analysis of the frequency of occurrence of the increase in lead time to respond to the market 6.17.1 Frequency of occurrence of difficulty in synchronizing supply and demand 6.17.2 Cross tabulation of the frequency of occurrence of difficulty in synchronizing supply and demand 6.17.3 Chi square analysis of the frequency of occurrence of the difficulty in synchronizing supply and demand 6.18.1 Frequency of occurrence of stock-outs and backorders 152 6.18.2 Cross tabulation of the frequency of occurrence of stock-outs and backorders 6.18.3 Chi Square Analysis of the frequency of occurrence of stock-outs and backorders 6.19.1 Frequency of occurrence of over ordering to hedge against uncertainty 6.19.2 Cross tabulation of the frequency of occurrence of over ordering to hedge against uncertainty 6.19.3 Chi Square analysis of the frequency of occurrence of over ordering to hedge against uncertainty 6.20.1 Reliability Statistics of data on the results of RFID Implementation 156 6.20.2 Impact of RFID implementation on supply chain costs 157 6.20.3 Impact of RFID implementation on Product Traceability and Safety 158 6.20.4 Impact of RFID implementation on shelf availability 159 145 146 146 147 148 149 149 150 151 153 153 154 155 155
6.20.5 Impact of RFID implementations on store operations 159 6.20.6 Impact of RFID on the Responsiveness of the Supply chain 160 6.20.7 Impact of RFID implementation on Information Sharing 161 6.20.8 Impact of RFID implementation on product differentiation & enhancement 6.20.9 Impact of RFID implementation on customer value 163 6.20.10 Impact of RFID implementations on the marketing functions 164 6.20.11 Impact of RFID implementations on the Instore promotions 164 6.21.1 Reliability Statistics of Perception of VMI/RFID Implementations 166 6.21.2 Perception of VMI/RFID implementations on store operations 166 6.21.3 Perception of VMI/RFID implementation on retail scenario in India 167 6.21.4 Perception that VMI/RFID implementations are long term value for money investments 6.21.5 Perception of VMI/RFID implementations on product availability & customer satisfaction 6.21.6 Perception of VMI/RFID implementations on supply chain coordination 6.21.7 Perception of VMI/RFID implementations on Staff size in the long run 6.22 Recommendation to other to take part in a VMI/RFID arrangement 6.23 Two Way ANOVA Analysis of the parameters of study 172 162 168 169 170 171 172 List of Figures Figure No Title Page No 3.1 Relationship between order quantity and inventory cost 42 3.2 Inventory profile of EOQ model or Wilson-Harris model 45 3.3 Cost curve of EOQ model with price breaks 48 3.4 Inventory profile of build-up model or EOQ model for production run 49
3.5 Inventory profile of planned shortages model 51 3.6 A realistic inventory profile 55 3.7 Information and product flow diagram in a simple VMI model 72 3.8 RFID tag with EPC code and structure 84