Footwear Industry Footwear Industry - empirica

Footwear
3.8 Drivers and Inhibitors for the Uptake of e-Business.................................................71
3.8.1 Drivers of e-business adoption.........................................................................71
3.8.2 Barriers to e-business adoption........................................................................72
3.9 Summary.....................................................................................................................75
3.9.1 Main findings for the footwear industry: limited ICT adoption.............................75
3.9.2 e-Business Index and Scoreboard 2006 ..........................................................77
3.9.3 Reasons for slow ICT and e-business adoption................................................78
4 Current e-Business Trends and Implications....................................................81
4.1 The role of e-business in supporting enterprise networking...................................83
4.1.1 Introduction......................................................................................................83
4.1.2 e-Business and collaboration with business partners........................................83
Case Study: Shoenet Project at Inescop, Spain............................................................85
Case Study: Whelan Shoes, Ireland..............................................................................90
Case Study: The Adoption of ICT and e-Business Along the Value Chain of Ski Boots
Production at Atomic, Austria...........................................................................95
4.1.3 Summary of main points and conclusions....................................................... 100
4.2 The role of e-Business in integration with distribution.......................................... 101
4.2.1 Introduction.................................................................................................... 101
4.2.2 Trends in the sector........................................................................................ 102
Case Study: ERP system in Danish shoe retailing / Shoe-D-Vision, Denmark............. 104
Case Study: Moreschi, Italy........................................................................................ 110
Case Study: Alpina, Slovenia...................................................................................... 115
4.2.3 Summary of main points and conclusions....................................................... 117
4.3 RFID in the footwear industry.................................................................................. 118
4.3.1 RFID in the supply chain................................................................................ 118
4.3.2 An example of RFID applied to product innovation.......................................... 124
Case Study: RFID at Safe Way, Italy.......................................................................... 125
4.3.3 Summary of main points and conclusions....................................................... 129
5 Conclusions......................................................................................................130
5.1 Business impact....................................................................................................... 130
5.1.1 Implications for enterprises............................................................................. 130
5.1.2 Implications for industry structure................................................................... 136
5.2 Policy implications................................................................................................... 140
References.............................................................................................................147
Annex I: The e-Business Survey 2006 – Methodology Report ..............................149
Annex II: Expanded Tables....................................................................................159
Annex III: Glossary of Technical Terms ................................................................163
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