Location selection is one of the key success factors of retail businesses. Location determines the number of contacts with customers, business volume and total income of retail business. To prove the hypothesis of location as the decisive factor in retail businesses, the following paper apllied...

In the Szabo-Szoba R&D Laboratory in Gyõr we use the BeerGame software to demonstrate various supply chain management problems. We have developed this android application in order to have an adaptable, entertaining and effective program, which can provide real life experience to students and...

In the global competitive environment, enterprises can survive in the long term by permanently improving their business. Usually, enterprises have limited resources and they face hard conditions; but they can significantly improve their business results if they manage their working better. The...

The formal features of a retail business unit are subject to permanent changes. Starting from the detected regularities therein, this paper‘s objective is to enrich an informat ional basis for a detection of new, more adequate forms. The paper initially analyzes the formal features of retail...

The warehousing processes contain many hidden opportunities for cost -effective process development. Cost and performance optimization is possible with reengineering of algorithms, assignment decisions, scheduling and sequencing solutions without infrastructural investments. The only objective...

Increasing development of the Internet and the use of information and communication technology contributed to the development of e-retailing in consumers‘ purchasing. The main purpose of this paper is to explore overall perceptions of e-retailing among Croatian consumers. In particular, the...

Order picking is one of the most time -consuming activities in warehousing. Having appropriate measurements and accurate data about the real time-requests of different operations like travel t ime, searching and picking time or setup time is inevitable for making the decisions about further...

What are the buying habits of consumers in the city of Vukovar? This city was selected as a subject of research due to insufficiently developed retailing network and limited assortment of products that are offered. Consequently, this has resulted in customers shopping in neighboring cities,...

Working (operating) capital available for use is an important factor in the success of the business firm and the whole supply chain. Effective working capital management helps in balancing usage of capital, not only for the firm, but for the suppliers and the consumers too, that is in the best...

The paper starts with the importance of the study of forms of retail business units in the food sector in the Republic of Croatia with respect to shares of stores with mainly food products (grocery stores) in overall retail, and also considering the negative balance of foreign trade balance...