The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance (Hardcover)

Introduction 1. Retail Valuation: How Investors Value Product Availability and Inventory Management 2. Product Life Cycle Planning: How to Reinvent Forecasting, Inventory Optimization, and Markdown Pricing 3. Assortment Planning: Mining Sales Data to Discover ‘Homerun' Products You are Missing 4. Flexible Supply Chains: How to Design for Greater Agility End to End 5. Reducing Perverse Incentive Misalignment in Supply Chains 6. Store Level Execution: Increasing Sales Through Better Availability of Products and Store Associates 7. Company-Wide Implementation: Managerial Issues Affecting Implementation 8. Technological Risk: How Retailers Should Assess and Manage Emerging Technologies Conclusions