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Retail Analytics : Integrated Forecasting and Inventory Management for Perishable Products in Retailing / by Anna-Lena Sachs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sachs, Anna-Lena., Author.
- Series:
- Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 0075-8442 ; 680
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Production management.
- Operations research.
- Decision making.
- Management science.
- Sales management.
- Operations Management.
- Operations Research/Decision Theory.
- Operations Research, Management Science.
- Sales/Distribution.
- Local Subjects:
- Operations Management.
- Operations Research/Decision Theory.
- Operations Research, Management Science.
- Sales/Distribution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (126 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book addresses the challenging task of demand forecasting and inventory management in retailing. It analyzes how information from point-of-sale scanner systems can be used to improve inventory decisions, and develops a data-driven approach that integrates demand forecasting and inventory management for perishable products, while taking unobservable lost sales and substitution into account in out-of-stock situations. Using linear programming, a new inventory function that reflects the causal relationship between demand and external factors such as price and weather is proposed. The book subsequently demonstrates the benefits of this new approach in numerical studies that utilize real data collected at a large European retail chain. Furthermore, the book derives an optimal inventory policy for a multi-product setting in which the decision-maker faces an aggregated service level target, and analyzes whether the decision-maker is subject to behavioral biases based on real data for bakery products.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Literature Review
- Safety Stock Planning under Causal Demand Forecasting
- The Data-Driven Newsvendor with Censored Demand Observations
- Data-Driven Order Policies with Censored Demand and Substitution
- Empirical Newsvendor Decisions under a Service Contract
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3-319-13305-5
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