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...

This paper provides a theory to explain how recent phenomena in the retailing industry, such as electronic data interchange, continuous replenishment, and consignment sales, are related to mitigating agency costs in a distribution channel. These phenomena are linked to the manufacturer?s ability...

Retailers often stock competing products from multiple manufacturers. When the retailer stocks out of a particular item, customers who prefer the item are likely, with some probability, to switch to a substitute product from another manufacturer at the same store. In such an event, a quot;lost...