Retail supply chain responsiveness

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review existing research on retail supply chain responsiveness, develop categories to be included in a retail-specific responsiveness framework, and identify future research areas within the scope of retail supply chain responsiveness. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents an inductive systematic literature review of 46 academic, peer-reviewed articles. Based around the two major review questions on (1) retailers' role in the creation of supply chain responsiveness and (2) future research areas, an inductive, qualitative, contentanalysis was conducted. Further analysis was conducted by using the software NVivo 11. Findings Existing research are grouped into a framework of four categories that together span the existing research. The categories are labelled supply chain orchestration, market orientation, supply chain operations, and supply management. 2-3 subthemes in each category are presented. Thereafter promising future research areas are outlined, covering methodological issues, theoretical underpinnings, inclusion of context variables and outcomes of retail supply chain responsiveness. Research limitations/implications The conducted systematic literature review has been limited to academic, peer-reviewed articles. Practical implications The findings of the paper constitute a promising initial step towards a retail-specific framework on retail supply chain responsiveness. Originality/value The article questions the comprehensiveness of established models in responsiveness, and argues that existing "general" literature on supply chain responsiveness gives little guidance and structure to retailers' specific role and involvement in supply chain responsiveness. In particular, the article focuses on the retailers' role for creation of supply chain responsiveness, which has not previously been addressed in research.

Accelerating retail supply chain performance against pandemic disruption: adopting resilient strategies to mitigate the long-term effects

“…The unpredicted demand and forecasting in the changing environment is also significant for RSCs, i.e. demand driven RSCs (Hofmann and Rutschmann, 2018; Sandberg and Jafari, 2018), dynamic business modelling for sustainability (Ansari and Kant 2017; Cosenz et al , 2020), reverse SCs (Frei et al , 2020).…”

A systematic review of responsiveness to develop future research agenda: a TCCM and bibliometric analysis

“…Supply chains are increasingly required to respond quickly to varying business settings (Dreyer et al, 2015;Thatte et al, 2013). What seems to be evident in recent decades is that downstream service providers, particularly retailers, have gained an enormous power (Sandberg and Jafari, 2018). Hence responsiveness has acutely shifted into the structure of the retail chain (Kamble et al, 2019;Shockley et al, 2015).…”

Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Food Supply Chains

“…Traceability [9,14,15] Food safety and security [14,16] Know-how transfer [5,14,[17][18][19][20] Information sharing [19,20] Logistics Networking [13,[21][22][23][24] Risk mitigation [24,25] Responsiveness [25][26][27][28] Employee Commitment [29,30] Innovation [31][32][33] Managerial Approaches [34,35] After the production stage of food supply chains, the processing stage is another critical stage for sustainable food supply chains [18]. The majority of losses in food supply chains come from the processing stage [14].…”

“…Responsiveness enables rapid adaptation to new conditions in the face of sudden changes that may occur [26]. Being able to meet responsiveness, especially at the retail stage, is extremely important for the sustainability of food supply chains [27]. In the retail stage, it is significant able to react quickly to changing conditions and adapting to new conditions affects the sustainability of food supply chains [25,28].…”