Supply Chain Organisation for Proximity Distribution: Comparison between French and Japanese Models

Claire Capo () and Odile Chanut ()
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Claire Capo: CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université
Odile Chanut: CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université

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Abstract: Convenience stores (CS) – or local stores-take different forms worldwide reflecting national market characteristics. In France, the mass retail sector is led by a few powerful retailing groups along directive lines. Power is more diffuse in Japan, with intermediaries playing a significant role and regulating the supply chains along more collaborative lines. Using a grid to analyse seven dimensions of proximity, we compare business models which include supply chain organisation for local store chain in Japan (so-called convenience stores) and in France (so-called proximity stores). What we identify is significant convergence amongst local store chain models relating to most of the aforementioned dimensions of proximity except for the inter-organisational proximity in which lies some major divergences.

Keywords: France; Japan; convenience stores; proximity stores; supply chain organisation; proximity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-11-09
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Published in Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 2015, 14 (3), pp.30 - 41. ⟨10.1080/16258312.2013.11517319⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2013.11517319

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