The New Science of Retailing How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance

• Main Authors: Fisher (Author), Raman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, Mass Harvard Business Press 2010
• Subjects: Retail Trade > Management.; Business Logistics.
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Retailers today are drowning in data but lacking in insight: They have huge volumes of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain problems including stock-ou...

Table of Contents:

• Retail valuation : how investors value product availability and inventory management
• Assortment planning : mining sales data to discover "homerun" products you are missing
• Product life cycle planning : how to reinvent forecasting, inventory optimization, and markdown pricing
• Flexible supply chains : how to design for greater agility end to end
• Reducing perverse incentive misalignment in supply chains
• Store level execution : increasing sales through better availability of products and store associates
• Company-wide implementation : managerial issues affecting implementation
• Technological risk : how retailers should assess and manage emerging technologies.