Motivated by the contrasting strategic choices made by two divisions of 7-Eleven regarding the risk ownership of excess inventory, our research aims to understand the drivers of the choice between consignment and retail ownership of inventory and to develop rules of thumb for determining what...

Internet retailing models support supply chains where consumer order locations are decoupled from inventory locations. In this setting, retailers dynamically consider inventory location speculation and postponement to fulfill their orders. Particularly, retailers can manage inventory to fulfill...