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Andreas Norrman

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Contextual adaptation of omni-channel grocery retailers’ online fulfilment centres

Författare

  • Ebba Eriksson
  • Andreas Norrman
  • Joakim Kembro

Summary, in English

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how grocery retailers configure their online fulfilment centres (OFC) as they move towards an omni-channel structure and what contextual factors influence their decisions. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory case study with three grocery retailers in the Nordic countries was conducted. The study investigates the current OFC configurations and identifies nine important contextual factors. Findings: This study shows the importance of understanding the changes that omni-channel retailing entails for an OFC configuration. Nine contextual factors were identified. Several of the factors are found in previous theory, but this paper extends the knowledge of how they affect the configuration of an OFC in grocery retail. The changes in, for example, order characteristics create different requirements for picking, packing, sorting and shipping when compared with traditional distribution centres (DC). Although representing a separate flow for online fulfilment, OFC configuration depends on how the other logistics flows from the DC to stores are designed. Research limitations/implications: To support further theory development, nine contextual factors and their relationship to OFC configurations are proposed. Practical implications: This study provides managerial value in two ways. First, grocery retailers with one or more OFCs can benchmark existing solutions using the empirical case descriptions. Second, the findings provide grocery retailers with knowledge of how to configure an OFC. Originality/value: The literature lacks a holistic approach towards how grocery retailers configure their OFCs and what factors affect these decisions. This study provides the first in-depth analysis of how the omni-channel context affects the configuration of all the aspects of an OFC.

Avdelning/ar

  • Teknisk logistik

Publiceringsår

2019-11-14

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1232-1250

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management

Volym

47

Issue

12

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Ämne

  • Economic Geography

Nyckelord

  • Case study
  • Contextual factors
  • Dark store
  • Distribution centre
  • E-fulfilment centre
  • Grocery retail
  • Omni-channel
  • Online fulfilment centre
  • Sorting
  • Warehousing

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0959-0552