基于ABC分类法的超市快速消费品物流配送模式新探

快速消费品市场对物流配送系统有着很高的要求。传统配送模式主要有供应商直通、连锁超市业自营配送以及第三方物流供应三种模式。但各种方式互有利弊,单纯运用其中一种模式难以完全适应快速消费品的高流通配送要求。本文以ABC分类法为指导思想,对连锁超市业中快速消费品配送模式提出了新的解析。初步形成了A类商品供应商直通,B类商品连锁超市白营配送,以及C类商品第三方物流企业供应的三位一体模式。     

基于SWOT模型的我国网上药店物流配送模式研究

本文重点探讨目前我国网上药店的主要物流配送模式。在基于SWOT模型的分析基础上,认为我国网上药店现阶段应当综合运用第三方物流、自营配送和门店自提三种主要的物流配送模式。通过使用优质的第三物流服务提供商进行物流配送可以降低物流成本,扩大市场份额;通过使用自营配送模式,可以提高顾客满意度和忠诚度,增加顾客重复购买率,增加企业利润;通过使用门店自提模式,可以提升门店的人流量,在一定程度上能增加药品及互补品的销量。此外,应重视如下几方面:严格挑选更合适的第三方物流服务提供商;逐步开展农村药品在线销售市场;重视通过物流配送支持处方药市场拓展;利用科学的配送模式推进O2O服务。     

连锁超市物流配送模式及其选择

连锁超市物流配送模式可以归为四类:自营配送模式、第三方物流模式、共同化配送模式、供应商配送模式。连锁超市应根据自身的规模选择适合自己发展的物流配送模式。     

企业物流配送模式简述

随着我国经济的发展,物流配送作为挖掘"第三利润源泉"的突破口受到了极大的重视并得到了较快的发展。中国加入世贸组织后,随着外资企业的进入,中国企业面临着较大的竞争,各个企业之间的竞争不仅体现在技术、人才上,同时还包括物流和供应链,而且企业物流服务之间的竞争将会更加激烈。因此,现代物流是企业提高竞争力的有效途径。本文主要介绍了自营配送模式、第三方配送模式、共同配送模式、互用配送模式、供应商配送模式等几种常用的物流配送模式,并对各个配送模式的优缺点和适用的配送范围进行了比较分析,本文用大量的图示列出每个配送模式的特点,便于读者更好的比较和理解,对于企业了解物流配送模式、合理选用物流配送模式关系有良好的参考价值。     

我国电子商务虚拟物流配送模式浅探

电子商务的迅速发展使第三方物流配送迅速升温,国内市场对物流配送的需求十分旺矗,物流配送正在成为国家新的经济增长点。电子商务企业可以将信息平台、仓储企业（中转站）、运输企业（承运人）、厂商组织起来,形成一个服务于商品配送的虚拟配送企业,来完成企业的物流配送业务。     

我国零售业连锁经营的物流配送模式优化研究

零售业连锁经营的发展和物流配送之间有着密切联系,而针对物流配送效益而言,对此产生影响的最大因素就是配送模式。本文主要从我国零售业连锁经营物流配送的有关理论入手,分析了四种配送模式当中存在的问题,即自营物流配送模式、供应商配送模式、共同配送模式与第三方物流配送模式。进而对其优化措施做出了深入研究。     

我国中小型连锁企业物流配送模式的比较选择

在分析了我国中小型连锁企业物流配送现状的基础上,运用SWOT方法对现存的几种物流模式进行对比分析,从而得出结论:我国中小连锁企业应该采用以共同配送为主,供应商配送和第三方物流配送为辅的综合物流模式。     

基于三角模糊熵的网上书店配送模式评价及对策研究

本文在分析国内主要网上书店配送现状基础上,认对网上书店主要有第三方物流、自营物流配送和第三方物流加连锁书店三种配送模式,并利用三角模糊熵的评价方法,以客户满意度为评价标准,对配送模式进行选择,最后提出相应的对策建议。三角模糊熵法,采用三角模糊数和熵值法相结合确定指标权重,有效避免指标权重主观性较强的问题,为网上书店进行配送模式的选择提供了新的思路。     

基于模糊综合评判法的B2C企业物流配送模式选择

目前,国内主要物流配送模式包括企业自建物流、第三方物流、自建与外包相结合的物流、共同配送四种模式。采用模糊综合评判法对B2C企业物流配送模式的选择可知,市场占有规模相对较大、企业实力较雄厚、服务范围较广的企业,首选自建和外包相结合的物流配送模式;而企业实力绝对雄厚,市场规模大的企业适合自建物流;规模相对较小的企业适合发展共同配送物流模式。从长远发展看,我国应该大力发展第三方物流。要大力加强信息化建设,为第三方物流发展创造条件;B2C企业应该转变观念,积极依靠第三方物流;物流企业应尽快做大做强,加强增值服务。同时,要加快高层次物流人才培养,加快物流企业配套设施建设,健全相关赔偿制度。     

物流配送成本分析

配送管理是第三方物流企业物流作业管理的一个重要组成部分,配送的效率直接影响整个物流系统的运作。如何提高配送管理效率、优化资源配置、降低管理成本、提高顾客满意度,是第三方物流企业面临的管理方面的重要问题。本文分析物流配送成本的构成,并探讨控制物流配送成本的关键因素。     

Supporting Social Enterprises to Support Vulnerable Consumers: The Example of Community Development Finance Institutions and Financial Exclusion

This article examines the role of social enterprises in providing fair services to vulnerable consumers, focusing on the vulnerability of low-income consumers to high-cost exploitative credit as a result of a lack of access to mainstream financial services. It will be argued that both the state and the corporate sector have a role to play in providing the means with which vulnerable consumers can overcome financial exclusion, through access to fair services. However, this cannot and should not be achieved through increased welfare provision or through reliance on corporate social responsibility initiatives alone. In rejecting solutions focused on increased welfare or voluntary corporate social responsibility initiatives, this article suggests that regulatory support for the development and growth of social enterprises, such as community development finance institutions, will most effectively give rise to a social framework in which vulnerability and unequal opportunity with respect to financial services is addressed.     

我国劳务派遣制度的起源和发展概述

我国在1978年开始了劳动力市场化的探索,至2008年1月1日《劳动合同法》生效,共历经了30年。曾经的劳动服务公司、职业介绍所、对外劳务输出公司等具有劳务派遣雏形的劳动服务形式,都对我国现行的劳务派遣制度产生了深刻的影响。     

The United Nations Global Compact: Engaging Implicit and Explicit CSR for Global Governance

In the past few decades, a growth in ethical consumerism has led brands to increasingly develop conscientiousness and depict ethical image at a corporate level. However, most of the research studying business ethics in the field of corporate brand management is either conceptual or has been empirically conducted in relation to goods/products contexts. This is surprising because corporate brands are more relevant in services contexts, because of the distinct nature of services (i.e., intangible, heterogeneous, and inseparable) and the key role that employees have in the services sector (i.e., they can build or break the brand when interacting with customers). Accordingly, this article aims at empirically examining the effects of customer perceived ethicality in the context of corporate services brands. Based on data collected for eight service categories using a panel of 2179 customers, the hypothesized structural model is tested using path analysis. The results show that, in addition to a direct effect, customer perceived ethicality has a positive and indirect effect on customer loyalty, through the mediators of customer affective commitment and customer perceived quality. Further, employee empathy positively influences the impact of customer perceived ethicality on customer affective commitment, and customer loyalty positively impacts customer positive word-of-mouth. The first implication of these results is that corporate brand strategy needs to be aligned with human resources policies and practices if brands want to turn ethical strategies into employee behavior. Second, corporate brands should build more authentic communications grounded in their ethical beliefs and supported by evidence from actual employees.     

The nonprofit case for corporate volunteering: a multi-level perspective

ABSTRACT

This article argues that the nonprofit case for corporate volunteering is complex, requiring a multi-level perspective on the outcomes for nonprofit organizations (NPOs). To develop this perspective, we adopted an inductive research approach, conducting 39 exploratory semi-structured interviews with NPO staff. We argue that NPO scholars and practitioners should disentangle individual and organizational-level outcomes resulting from interactions between corporate volunteers and NPO staff, as such micro-dynamics ultimately affect NPO services. Moreover, these outcomes are subject to conditions at the organizational level (e.g. involvement of intermediaries), as well as at the individual level (e.g. type of assignment). Our study highlights the complexity that should be considered when addressing the fundamental question of whether corporate volunteering contributes to the ability of NPOs to provide their services, and under what conditions. We therefore propose that corporate volunteer management within NPOs is inherently, albeit contingently, intertwined with the services that these organizations provide.     

The Ethics of Marketing Good Corporate Conduct

Companies that contribute to charitable organizations rightly hope that their philanthropic work will also be good for the bottom line. Marketers of good corporate conduct must be especially careful, however, to market such conduct in a morally acceptable fashion. Although marketers typically engage in mild deception or take artistic license when marketing goods and services, these sorts of practices are far more morally troublesome when used to market good corporate conduct. I argue that although mild deception is not substantially worrisome with respect to the marketing of most goods and services, it is a far greater moral blunder to use such methods in the marketing of good corporate character. These erode trust and demonstrate alack of adequate respect for the moral good. In light of these concerns, I suggest that such practices must be re-examined when applied to the marketing of corporate character and good conduct. Finally, I develop a revised set of ethical guidelines that are needed in order to address the problems peculiar to the marketing of morally praiseworthy behavior.     

Benchmarking Services Branding Practices

The results of research into the competitiveness of New Zealand firms that provide professional and other business services suggest that effective branding is a key source of success. Brand strength appears to be linked to four main practices: investing in marketing communications to improve customer awareness and understanding of corporate and product brand values; contributing to the wider community to improve corporate reputation; improving internal communications (internal marketing) so front-line and professional staff are kept better informed about customer needs, market changes and company initiatives, thereby enabling staff to help customers better; and improving service quality to improve market positioning. The paper answers calls for the development of an integrated theory of services branding and concludes by positing three main conditions for effective services strategies and practices.     

Managing Corporate Portal Usage with Recommender Systems

Corporate portals are supposed to support a company’s business model and to increase productivity of the employees. However, the productivity gain that can be achieved by corporate portals is often undermined because the users of the portal are not sufficiently informed about the portal’s capabilities. This is of particular concern for large corporate portals whose service portfolio is constantly evolving and to which new users are added frequently. In the article, we propose a recommender system for corporate portals in order to increase service awareness and usage. Following the design science methodology, a suitable recommender concept is developed and several implementation options are evaluated in a field experiment at one of Germany’s largest companies. It is found that the recommender system increases the number of newly visited services as well as the number of newly used services in the corporate portal by about 20 %.     

The strategic evolution of large US law firms

In recent years, large US law firms have been undergoing significant changes. Most have switched from a professional model (P2 form) to a corporate business model, employing competitive strategies and a profit orientation. As the market for corporate legal services became more competitive, many large US law firms began to diversify the services they offer and expand their operations into new geographic regions of the country and into international markets. They even engaged in acquisitions and learned to manage and leverage their critical resources, human capital and relational capital. As a result, most of these law firms have added more professional management. All in all, the services law firms offer and the rivals with which they must contend have changed substantially over the last 15 years.     

Goal-Setting Process and Typologies

The corporate goal-setting process is examined to determine the extent of causal interrelationships among five widely used performance targets: market share, ROI profit, corporate image, and sales volume. By making use of the professional services sector as a testing ground, different company typologies were developed on the basis of regression coefficients which determined the causal associations among corporate objectives. Some of the findings revealed that sales volume and corporate image influenced market share. The direct impact of corporate impact of the sales volume and market share on ROI is also found, as well as the impact of the sales volume obiective on the pursuit of overall profitability. It is suggested that each corporate objective serves a special purpose and that managers should incorporate the most suitable performance measures into their strategic plans.     

Managerial Views of Corporate Impacts and Dependencies on Ecosystem Services: A Case of International and Domestic Forestry Companies in China

A line of research is emerging investigating the private sector impacts and dependencies on critical biodiversity and ecosystem services, and related business risks and opportunities. While the ecosystem services narrative is being forwarded globally as a key paradigm for promoting business sustainability, there is scarce knowledge of how these issues are considered at managerial level. This study thus investigates managerial views of corporate sustainability after the ecosystem services concept. We analyse interviews conducted with 20 managers from domestic and international forestry companies operating with a plantation-based business model in China. Content analysis was employed to analyse the data, with a focus on four key areas: (1) interviewee familiarity with the ecosystem services concept; (2) their views of corporate dependencies and impacts on ecosystem services; (3) related business risks and opportunities; and (4) viability of existing instruments and practices that can be employed in detecting and addressing business impacts and dependencies on ecosystem services. Through an inductive approach to the empirical findings, we refined a framework that holds operational value for developing company response strategies to ecosystem services impact/dependence assessment, ensuring that all issues are addressed comprehensively, and that related risks and opportunities are properly acknowledged.