The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0263-5577.htm IMDS 111‚5 Warehouse contextual factors affecting the impact of RFID Angeliki Karagiannaki‚ Dimitris Papakiriakopoulos and Cleopatra Bardaki Department of Management Science and Technology‚ ELTRUN Research Center‚ Athens University of Economics and Business‚ Athens‚ Greece Abstract Purpose – Empowered by the possibility to automatically identify unique instances‚ radio frequency
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its creation in 1943‚ IKEA has created many firm-specific advantages for itself. First‚ IKEA has standardized the process of offering disassembled furniture to be put together at the consumer’s home. This was a groundbreaking concept‚ allowing for a much larger inventory at each store‚ and in turn allowing customers to actually obtain their products at the day of purchase. As a result of this new store layout‚ IKEA has been able to allow sales clerks to focus more on in-store displays and fast-moving
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quality and durability‚ at prices so low that the majority of people can afford to buy them (IKEA 1994). The company targets the customer who is looking for value and is willing to do a little bit of work serving themselves‚ transporting the items home and assembling the furniture for a better price. The typical Ikea customer is young low to middle income family. 2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Swedish Company IKEA was the world ’ s largest furniture retailer since the early 1990s. It sold inexpensive furniture
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The IKEA Concept began when Ingvar Kamprad‚ an entrepreneur from the Smaland province in Sweden came up with a creative idea. It was only a few years earlier in 1939 that WWII began‚ causing trading between countries to become limited. In sight of this‚ Kamprad found a need to provide furniture at a lower cost‚ than manufacturers‚ to the farmers in Smaland. In the remote town of Agunnaryd‚ the people have a reputation for working hard and making the most of their available limited resources (Torekull
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Environmental Factors Affecting Firm’s Ability to Compete: A Retail Perspective Organizations that promote learning are better equipped to handle the ever-changing business environment. Retailers are no different. When an organization’s leadership plans for the future it must take into account principle environmental factors. A company’s ability to compete will be affected by how well the leaders have learned to identify those factors‚ to demonstrate their company’s significance‚ and to estimate
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IKEA is an international home-furnishing retailer that sells good design‚ functionality and low price flat pack furniture‚ accessories‚ and bathroom and kitchen items all around the world. IKEA is currently the world’s largest furniture retailer‚ owning 301 stores in 37 countries. The company manufactures furniture worldwide and the headquarters located in Sweden are responsible for the design and developments of I IKEA’s range of products. The company was founded by Ingvar Kamprad in 1943 when
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are expected to be readily available at any point in time. There are many variables that affect the type of health care that is available to the public‚ some of which are social factors like income‚ ethnicity‚ education‚ transportation‚ insurance‚ housing‚ and food access‚ etc. just to name a few. The social factor that has affected the healthcare system tremendously is income. According to the census bureau‚ the average American family makes around $51‚000 a year. Almost one household out
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The water from the creeks and water bodies around Brisbane will be unsafe to drink as the water is polluted and results will not be in the recommended requirements for safe drinking. It is expected that Bulimba Creek is polluted because it is a large water way and therefore it is hard for one committee to maintain the watery way’s health while respecting its biodiversity (BulimbaCreek.org‚ 2015). It is expected that Waterloo Bay is undrinkable because it is a salt water body (Health-e-waterways.org
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------------------------------------------------- Duties and obligations of paying banker and collecting banker ------------------------------------------------- Under N.I act‚ 1881. PAYING BANKER * A Banker on whom a cheque is drawn should pay the cheque when it is presented for payment. * This cheque paying function is a distinguished one of a banker. * This obligation has been imposed on him by sec. 31 of the N.I Act‚ 1881. * A banker is bound to honour his customer’s cheque
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There are a multitude of things that can affect a police officer’s discretion. The first big factor that they take into consideration is the suspects demeanor and how they carry themselves in the presence of the officer. A suspect that makes the officers job harder than it must be rather than cooperating with them are at a greater risk of getting arrested than not. Another big factor is the suspects records. The past charges and police run-ins will take a big toll on the officer’s decisions. In most
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