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1. Shopping Convenience
2. Wide Choice
3. Liberal Services
4. Central Location
5. Large Volume of sales
Disadvantages of Store:
1. Distance
2. High Cost of Operation
3. Higher Prices
4. Difficult to Establish
5. Absence of Personal Contact
Advantages of Showrooms:
1. Provides an Experience. When people go shopping, it's not always for a specific
product.
2. Amount of Returns Decline. Showrooms can also help to decrease the number of
returns.
3. Customer Trust Increases. Gaining customer trust is huge, and putting your products
out on physical display is an honest move.
Disadvantages of Showrooms:
How the effectiveness of Pull relatively to push may differ between NYC vs LA?
1. Based on your calculation, is the pull strategy better than the push strategy for all
product types in the flagship stores of NYC and LA? If not, for which product(s) is
pull better than push?
ANS
In NYC Store:
Under Hot Smart for the fast selling and experience items pull strategy have a huge
savings.
Under Hot feature we can see that push strategy is better than pull strategy as saving
is negative 12.02%. So for fast selling and inexpensive items push strategy might
work better.
Under Cold Smart slow and expensive items the pull strategy can achieve the highest
savings.
Under Cold feature slow moving and inexpensive items the pull strategy can achieve
the highest savings.
In LA Store:
Under Hot Smart for the fast selling and experience items pull strategy have a huge
savings.
Under Hot feature we can see that push strategy is better than pull strategy as saving
is negative 15.91%. So for fast selling and inexpensive items push strategy might
work better.
Under Cold Smart slow and expensive items the pull strategy can achieve the highest
savings.
Under Cold feature slow moving and inexpensive items the pull strategy can achieve
the highest savings.
2. Based on your calculation, what are the net savings for the NYC and LA stores if we
move from push to pull?
ANS
In NYC Store:
%
Savings
Pull vs.
push
Cold-
Smart 88.40%
Cold-
Feature 65.50%
Hot-
Smart 53.86%
Hot-
Feature -12.02%
In LA Store:
%
Savings
Pull vs.
push
Cold-
Smart 86.70%
Cold-
Feature 37.56%
Hot-
Smart 42.51%
Hot-
Feature -15.91%
So in the both stores we can see that pull can achieve a higher savings that a push
strategy.
3. Based on your calculation, In which region (NYC vs LA), pull may generate a greater
saving relative to push?
By comparing both the stores we can conclude that pull generates a greater savings
than push.
In NYC Store:
Inventory Shipping
Push cost cost Picking/Packing cost
Hot- 431.63389
Smart $4,834 8 18.8847458
Cold- 626.666666
Smart 7 6.192 1.158
Cold- 23.422222
Feature 388.8 2 1.87592593
$1,65,770
Inventory Shipping
Pull cost cost Picking/Packing cost
Hot- 2158.1694
Smart 100 9 179.847458
Hot- 1795.7288
Feature 40 1 149.644068
Cold-
Smart 40 30.96 2.58
Cold- 117.11111
Feature 16 1 9.75925926
Total $3,776 $85,147 $7,096
$96,019
% saving 42.08%
In LA Store:
Inventory Shipping
Push cost cost Picking/Packing cost
Hot- 326.88813
Smart $2,913 6 14.520339
Hot- 202.90169
Feature 770.4242424 5 9.35423729
Cold- 4.8558139
Smart 492.6315789 5 1.10232558
Cold-
Feature 139.52 15.04 1.52666667
$1,00,440
Inventory Shipping
Pull cost cost Picking/Packing cost
Hot- 1634.4406
Smart 100 8 136.20339
Hot- 1014.5084
Feature 40 7 84.5423729
Cold- 24.279069
Smart 40 8 2.02325581
Cold-
Feature 16 75.2 6.26666667
Total $3,776 $57,439 $4,787
$66,002
% saving 34.29%