Human Leaders and Artificial Intelligent Leaders

The chapter deals with the relationship between human leader and artificial leader. Organizations are encroached by artificial intelligent in almost all the areas of the organization such as retail industry, banking industry, call centers, manufacturing industry. The chapter shows the path how human leader sharing workplace space with the artificial leaders and make them as their workplace spouses for the better functioning of the organizations and the economy. The limitation of the research is implementation of AI in organizations will generate social problems such as unemployment, theft, etc. The future scope of the research is to analyze the working of artificial leaders in the academic industry.

Competitive Advantages in the Turkish Retail Industry

Retail is one of the most important industries that is continuously improving around the world and in particular in Turkey. Competitive advantages owned by firms keep businesses one step ahead of their competitors. The main objectives of this chapter are determination of the main competitive advantages and capabilities for firm performance, determination of competitive advantages and capabilities which are relatively important for firm performance, and determination of competitive advantages and capabilities that are mainly used under the effects of environmental dynamism for firm performance in the Turkish retail industry. In this chapter, retailers are evaluated into two groups as organized and traditional. Totally, 50 competitive advantages and capabilities were identified in the research. The results of the study would be beneficial both for retail literature and retail business life.

Pemanfaatan Teknologi dalam Pengelompokkan Produk pada Minimarket

The retail industry is currently growing rapidly, especially in Indonesia. One form of the retail industry is modern retail which includes supermarkets, minimarkets and others. This study focuses on the grouping of products sold at minimarkets. This research is caused by seeing the phenomenon of the large number of transactions that occur in one day, the result is the number of products sold. This makes it difficult for minimarket managers to determine the next product procurement. Therefore, This study is conducted to group the products sold so that the products that need to be procured are seen next. This study propose a software to perform the grouping using the K-means algorithm. For the data sample, this study obtained sales transaction data for 3 months from the Sastra Mart minimarket. In this study, manual calculations were carried out on 10 samples of beverage data taken randomly from sales transactions which would be divided into 3 clusters. The results of manual calculations, there are 3 drink data entered into the “Sangat Laris” cluster, 2 drink data entered the “Laris” cluster and 5 drink data entered the “Kurang Laris” cluster. The software produced from the research gives the same results as manual calculations in classifying products. This study has also carried out software testing to test all its functionalities, from the test results, everything runs normally and as expected.

The Impact of Block Chain and Smart Inventory System on Supply Chain Performance at Retail Industry

Blockchain is a trending topic and would be the most significant issue for all industries, manufacturing or services. This study aims to investigate the Impact of Block Chain and Smart Inventory System on Supply Chain Performance at Retail Industry in the UAE. A quantitative research was adapted, and a survey was designed and rolled out by email to all participants. A 202 valid questionnaires were used in the statistical process in order to find out the impact of blockchain technology and smart inventory on supply chain performance in retail industry. The hypotheses testing confirmed the direct impact of blockchain technology on supply chain performance side by side with the mediator role of smart inventory in the indirect impact. The results revealed that blockchain is becoming the real time need of the retail industry and has improved the efficiency of the retail industry.