their individual situation. Additionally, planning problems and horizons may differ
in specific cases depending on the structural type. For example, if the marketing
strategy forces to change the store layout every few weeks, store layout planning
turns to a short-term problem. Secondly, the framework has been developed for
grocery retailing, but would need to be tailored to other consumer-facing industries,
e.g., fashion or pharmacieswith specific planning requirements.Variations in the SC
networks, degree of SC control, geographical spread, relative logistics costs, level
of data and IT, as well as relative sophistication of service providers may result
in various focus areas (Fernie and Staines 2001). The concept should be generic
enough to cope with these variations.