TY - BOOK AU - Laseter,Timothy M. AU - Rabinovich,Elliot TI - Internet retail operations: integrating theory and practice for managers T2 - Supply chain integration : modeling, optimization, and application SN - 9781439800928 (ebook : PDF) PY - 2012/// CY - Boca Raton, Fla. PB - CRC Press KW - Electronic commerce KW - Business logistics KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Internet retailing : from experimentation to execution -- 2. The world wide Web and information technology -- 3. Scale economies and the network effect in Internet retailing -- 4. Operations strategy for the Internet -- 5. Supply chain management for a virtual world -- 6. Defining the value -- 7. Outsourcing Internet retail operations -- 8. Understanding the drivers of cost-to-serve -- 9. The last-mile challenge -- 10. Managing product returns -- 11. Amazon : supply chain strategy and innovation -- 12. eShip-4U -- 13. Freshdirect : expansion strategy -- 14. Musictoday, LLC. : managing inventory for night train -- 15. Better world books -- 16. Cooking.com -- 17. Relayfoods.com, Inc. -- 18. eBags : managing growth; Also available in print edition UR - http://marc.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9781439800928 ER -