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The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Retail Store Sales: A Longitudinal Study by Ton, Zeynep, Raman, Ananth

“…We examine the effects of product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using 4 years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in…”
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An Econometric Analysis of Inventory Turnover Performance in Retail Services by Gaur, Vishal, Fisher, Marshall L, Raman, Ananth

“…Inventory turnover varies widely across retailers and over time. This variation undermines the usefulness of inventory turnover in performance analysis,…”
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Execution: The Missing Link in Retail Operations by Raman, Ananth, DeHoratius, Nicole, Ton, Zeynep

“…In spite of making substantial investments in information technology planning systems, retailers are struggling with two execution problems—" inventory record…”
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Reducing the Cost of Demand Uncertainty Through Accurate Response to Early Sales by Fisher, Marshall, Raman, Ananth

“…Traditionally, fashion products have incurred high losses due to stockouts and inventory obsolence because long lead times coupled with a concentrated selling…”
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Using Data and Big Data in Retailing by Fisher, Marshall, Raman, Ananth

“…In this essay, we examine how retailers can use data to make better decisions and hence, improve their performance. We have been studying retail operations for…”
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Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis by DeHoratius, Nicole, Raman, Ananth

“…Traditional inventory models, with a few exceptions, do not account for the existence of inventory record inaccuracy (IRI), and those that do treat IRI as…”
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Innovations in retail operations: Thirty years of lessons from Production and Operations Management by Fisher, Marshall, Raman, Ananth

“…We review papers published in POM during its thirty‐year history that deal with retail operations issues with an empirical approach. The papers span a range of…”
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QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF INVENTORY HOLDING COST AND REACTIVE CAPACITY ON AN APPAREL MANUFACTURER'S PROFITABILITY by RAMAN, ANANTH, KIM, BOWON

“…This paper was motivated by the operational problems faced by Northco, a school uniform manufacturer in the Northeastern United States. Northco was facing high…”
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Do Inventory and Gross Margin Data Improve Sales Forecasts for U.S. Public Retailers? by Kesavan, Saravanan, Gaur, Vishal, Raman, Ananth

“…Firm-level sales forecasts for retailers can be improved if we incorporate cost of goods sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined by us as the ratio of sales…”
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Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model by Schmidt, William, Gaur, Vishal, Lai, Richard, Raman, Ananth

“…We analyze a signaling game between the manager of a firm and an investor in the firm. The manager has private information about the firm's demand and cares…”
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Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine by Gaur, Vishal, Kesavan, Saravanan, Raman, Ananth

“…Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their investors, lenders, and suppliers. Retailers not only benefit from…”
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Medicine’s Continuous Improvement Imperative by Huckman, Robert S, Raman, Ananth

“…Maintaining quality and spurring innovation have long been central objectives of the US health care system. Like other health care professionals, physicians…”
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The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times by Kraiselburd, Santiago, Pibernik, Richard, Raman, Ananth

“…Although, ceteris paribus, reducing lead times may be desirable from an overall system perspective, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong…”
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Contracting in a Supply Chain with Stochastic Demand and Substitute Products by Kraiselburd, Santiago, Narayanan, V. G., Raman, Ananth

“…Retailers often stock competing products from multiple manufacturers. When the retailer stocks out of a particular item, customers who prefer the item are…”
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Special Issue of Production and Operations Management: Retail Operations by Gaur, Vishal, Raman, Ananth, Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Production and Operations Management: Retail Operations by Gaur, Vishal, Raman, Ananth, Swaminathan, Jayashankar M

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Special Issue of Production and Operations Management: Retail Operations by Gaur, Vishal, Raman, Ananth, Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.

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Special Issue of Production and Operations Management: Retail Operations by Gaur, Vishal, Raman, Ananth, Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Production and Operations Management: Retail Operations by Gaur, Vishal, Raman, Ananth, Swaminathan, Jayashankar M

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Agency Costs in a Supply Chain with Demand Uncertainty and Price Competition by Narayanan, V. G, Raman, Ananth, Singh, Jasjit

“…In this paper, we model a manufacturer that contracts with two retailers, who then choose retail prices and stocking quantities endogenously in a Bayesian Nash…”
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