Friday 6 January 2017

Chapter 4 Part 3




Customer Relationship Management
     Focus on identifying and building loyalty with the retailer’s most valuable customers.
     Typically offering rewards based on amount of service or merchandise they purchased.
     Loyalty programs collects customers database to analyse their shopping behaviour to provide insight that enable retailers to build and maintain loyalty.

Relationship with suppliers
     Good relationship with companies that provide service and merchandise to the retailers.
     Share information and sales data for better production plan.
     Long term and not easily off-set by competitors.

Efficiency of internal operations
     Human Resource
                                I.            “Employees are key to build a sustainable competitive advantage”
                              II.            Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Talented Employees
                            III.            Employee Branding
                            IV.            Develop positive organizational culture

     ■     Distribution and Information System.
                                I.            By decreasing costs here, the is more money available to invest in:
-Better services
-Increase in breadth and depth
-Decrease in prices