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What are possible businesses that can employ the rapid response supply chain similar to Seven Eleven Japan, besides a convenience store?

Businesses that can employ rapid response are varied in different point of view. The first possible choice is a restaurant business; they can use rapid response to help manage each of their daily requiring ingredients – vegetables, chicken, pork, and etc. – to the right amount of their real demand. This will reduce the cost of those leftovers and increasing the quality of food customer can get within the restaurant as the food got deliver freshly everyday. Another possible business is health care industry where they serve to treat patients. They can adopt this idea to assist the right cure to the right person at the right time. Also, they can arrange the physician schedule according to the presence pattern of patients through out the year. There are times of accident when they will need as many physicians as possible and other times when it is fine for the physicians to not be around. This can raise the efficiency and effectiveness of curing patients of a particular hospital. For the last possible business other than convenience store is a museum industry. Because of the rapid change of worlds trend, the museum can apply rapid response to their new collecting items. Many of things have been forgotten only in a short time. So, collecting things that tell a story, has little value, and would therefore otherwise disappear will be much more fun for the audience to see. There always incidents in each year, happy or sad but it’s memorable so that part of the story could be saved by the museum and let the next generation see afterward.

What are the recent services that Seven Eleven Japan offers?

As what we have researched, the recent services that Seven Eleven Japan offers to people did not change much. Only a few things have got introduced. And these new services may not be the same in every store because it is...