Essays on retail operations management
By: a dissertation presented by Nathan Charles Craig to Ananth Raman, C. Fritz Foley, Douglas Fearing in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Business Administration in the subject of technology and operations management
Contributors: Harvard Business School
Publisher: ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Retail trade; Management
Description: This dissertation presents research on two topics in retail operations management: the inventory-based lending cycle and the impact of supplier inventory service level on retailer demand. The first study examines the cycle of lending, appraisal, and liquidation that supports collateralized lending on retail inventories. The second study introduces the retail store liquidation problem to the literature, presents a model for improving pricing, inventory, and store closing decisions during liquidation, and discusses insights and results generated by applying the model to recent large-scale retail liquidations. The third study provides the first empirical evidence of the effect of supplier inventory service level on retailer demand, demonstrating a positive and substantial relationship between a supplier's historical inventory service level to a retailer and the retailer's current demand for the supplier's products.
Notes: UMI Number: 3624349.

D.B.A. Harvard Business School 2014 Nathan Charles Craig's thesis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-101).

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 2014.