"This new edition provides a focused message on how inventory optimization effects specific business verticals through improved metrics. It reviews the fundamentals of inventory optimization so that practitioners can attain a demand driven supply as well as provides a business perspective of why...

Introduction -- Retail valuation : how investors value product availability and inventory management -- Assortment planning : mining sales data to discover "home run" products you are missing -- Product life cycle planning : how to reinvent forecasting, inventory optimization, and markdown...