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