What are the factors , involved in " Retail chain management" ?

- Adaptability and divisibility of resources (human and technological)

resulting from their versatility as well as their redundancy, adaptability

and substitutability;

- The flexible nature of business processes and support (and alternatives

possible reconfigurations, low cost and duration of adjustment, combined activities

and recomposables, etc.);

- Maintaining degrees of freedom, also called organizational and slacks

technological (eg timing margins, over-capacity, static stocks

or circulating) that quickly allow to adapt and integrate new

constraints;

- The flexible nature of the monitoring process, including planning

operations (which leave open several scenarios, preparing different

response patterns according to alternative scenarios and can exploit

Information acquired after planning), combined with an ability

to adjust / review the on-going planning;

- The active search for additional information to better anticipate,

associated with a decision allowing more flexibility opened the field

future decisions;

- The ability to analyze new information, manage the arrival of new

planned events (eg beginning and end of activities, release of

resource, acquiring new capabilities, etc.) or unforeseen (delays, failures,

urgent requests defection of a partner, etc.), exploiting way

relevant existing static flexibility;

- The ability to recognize early a need for change, the ability to

organizational change (which is related to the degree of organizational structuring)

and innovation.

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