Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Retail Industry

摘要

With the increasingly intense competition in the retail market and the higher expectations of consumer, it is difficult to assure the healthy and stable development of retail enterprises simply by enlarging the amount of sales. Therefore, effective cost control is an important method for the development of retail industry and reasonable supply chain management is a strategy choice for retail cost control. The traditional supply chain management attached too much importance on economic factors. However, it accumulated massive environmental and social problems and seriously affected the healthy and stable development of retail enterprises. This requires the idea of sustainable development be studied into supply chain management and sustainable supply chain management be carried on, which has a strategic significance for the development of each main enterprise of retail industry. Based on the characteristics of retail industry, this paper analyses the necessity of implementing sustainable supply chain management, and points out deficit of the traditional retail chain management. It provides the theoretical basis for proper sustainable supply chain management and thus give polices to reshape the supply chain management.