Retail supply chain management
Subtitle: quantitative models and empirical studies
By: edited by Narendra Agrawal, Stephen A. Smith
Series: International series in operations research & management science -- 122; International series in operations research & management science -- 122.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780387789026
Subjects: Business logistics; Retail trade; Management
Description: "A critical resource for researchers and practitioners in the field of retailing, chapters in this book focus on three key areas: (1) empirical studies of retail supply chain practices, (2) assortment and inventory planning, and (3) integrating price optimization into retail supply chain decisions."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Overview of Chapters  -- Narendra Agrawal and Stephen A. Smith -- 2.; title: Supply Chain Planning Processes for Two Major Retailers  -- Narendra Agrawal and Stephen A. Smith -- 3.; title: The effects of firm size and sales growth rate on inventory turnover performance in the U.S. retail sector  -- Vishal Gaur and Saravanan Kesavan -- 4.; title: The Role of Execution in Managing Product Availability  -- Nicole DeHoratius and Zeynep Ton -- 5.; title: Category captainship practices in the retail industry  -- Mumin Kurtulus and L. Beril Toktay -- 6.; title: Assortment planning: Review of literature and Industry Practice  -- A. Gurhan Kok, Marshall L. Fisher and Ramnath Vaidyanathan -- 7.; title: Managing variety on the retail shelf: Using household scanner panel data to rationalize assortments  -- Ravi Anupindi, Sachin Gupta and M. A. Venkataramanan -- 8.; title: Optimizing Retail Assortments for Diverse Customer Preferences  -- Stephen A. Smith -- 9.; title: Multi-Location Inventory Models for Retail Supply Chain Management  -- Narendra Agrawal and Stephen A. Smith -- 10.; title: Manufacturer-to-retailer versus manufacturer-to-consumer rebates in a supply chain  -- Goker Aydin and Evan L. Porteus -- 11.; title: Clearance pricing in retail chains  -- Stephen A. Smith -- 12.; title: Markdown Competition -- Seungjin Whang.