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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Cannibalization"”.
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Cannibalization effects of products in Zara's stores and demand forecasting
… It focuses on attribute-based and price-based cannibalization effects for the trousers product category. A necessary preliminary step to study cannibalization is to obtain an accurate classification of all products according to distinct features. We present such a classification for the …
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Quantification of attribute driven product cannibalization induced by new product introduction
"The need for studying the effects of cannibalization and its importance has been established in literature. It is especially important for marketing since an assessment of the anticipated cannibalization effect of a new product could help in deciding on a suitable time for new product introduction …
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Measuring cannibalization in distribution networks : an approach to optimize store locations
A methodology was proposed to measure sales cannibalization using historic data containing variations in store densities. Sales cannibalization was defined as a decrease in the sales of one or several existing stores as a result of nearby store openings. The proposed methodology, combining …
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Tradeoffs in Air Force maintenance : squadron size, inventory policy, and cannibalization
… of aircraft, the number of spare parts, and cannibalization practices. The effects of depot repair time and the failure probability of aircraft parts are also considered. In a system like that of the Air Force sustainment system that aims to improve maintenance and logistics performance and …
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Demand forecasting at Zara : a look at seasonality, product lifecycle and cannibalization
… effects from seasonality, product lifecycle, and cannibalization into a long term aggregate demand forecast and a short term SKU replenishment forecast. For seasonality, there are two categories of events that are explored in detail: 1) Macro patterns, which are the year to year sales patterns …
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Dynamic Demand and Pricing Strategy in the E-Book Market
… books, adopt e-readers earlier, and have larger cannibalization rates. The two types also have different relative demand elasticities between e-readers and e-books. Given the estimated demand system, I simulate the optimal dynamic pricing strategies of e-readers and e-books for the monopolist …
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Fulfillment algorithm for integrating stock between brick and mortar and E-commerce
… increases system-wide profits by preventing cannibalization as well as potentially selling the item before it reaches the sales period. The proposed algorithm also considers important variables related to customer experience such as the amount of time the order will take to be delivered. This …
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Flexible product platforms
… of the strategy (e.g. performance tradeoff, cannibalization) is forcing companies to design their platforms with flexibility, so they can accommodate product variants, differentiate these variants, and be economically flexible to respond to specified future uncertainties. This thesis …
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Improving the consumer demand forecast to generate more accurate suggested orders at the store-item level
… forecast and accounting for the effect of cannibalization on demand.
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Family Plans: Market Segmentation with Nonlinear Pricing
… high-valuation consumers by reducing the cannibalization problem. Furthermore, a family obtains a higher allowance compared to the purchase of several individual plans and therefore contributes more profits to the firm. We also observe different types of quantity discounts in the firm's …
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Supplement versus Supplant: A case study of the effect of internet lottery sales on traditional lottery sales
… growth rates, I sought to determine if market cannibalization or revenue displacement occurred when the new delivery method was added. My findings show that state lotteries experienced sales growth prior to internet sales. Prior to internet sales, only one state experienced flat gross domestic …
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Queer, Cannibal, Brazilian: The Temporal Politics of Sexuality in Brazilian Cultural Production
… It argued for the Brazilian writer’s critical “cannibalization” of dominant cultures to reevaluate the country’s place in the modern world beyond the colonizer’s temporal markers. Yet, theories on how Oswald challenged Brazil’s cultural expression and modern subject as copies of Europe have …
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Sedimentological constraints on Precambrian crustal evolution in northern New Mexico
… sequences. The Marquenas Quartzite signifies cannibalization of the underlying magmatic arc and shelf. succession in response to deformation of the cratonic margin to the south. The transition from arc volcanism to stable-shelf sedimentation and subsequent deformation of the craton margin in …
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Three-dimensional eolian bounding surface architecture of the Entrada sandstone, Utah: expanding our understanding of reservoir heterogeneity in wet eolian systems
… records localized evidence of autogenic bedform cannibalization of the substrate (e.g., scour-and-fill architecture).
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Reengineering metrics systems for aircraft sustainment teams : a metrics thermostat for use in strategic priority management
… but increased Utilization decreases Fix Rate. -- Cannibalization Rate is associated with higher Fix Rates but lower Mission Capability, Flying Scheduling Effectiveness, and Aircraft Utilization. -- Active duty Mission Capability is predicted well from the dataset such that: * Active duty commands …
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Three essays on product design: incorporating capacity, remanufacturing, and environmental friendliness
… find that lower capacity introduces operations cannibalization which reduces the length of the optimal product line. We also show that if longer product line consumes more fixed capacity (e.g., for changeover or setup), then the resulting economy of scale could make offering a standard product …
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An Analysis of the Gaming Industry in Illinois
In 2012, Illinois passed legislation allowing Video Gaming Terminals (VGTs) outside of casinos. This legislation was passed in order to increase tax revenues from gambling in a market that had seen decreases in revenues and admissions over the past 8 years. Many mature gambling markets have also …
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The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s
… in general and then “fights back” by the cannibalization of the cake shaped like a woman, I read the novel as a critique of not only the marriage system and a narrative that reinforces the Mother as the Ultimate Woman (embodied in the novel by the perverse, unmarried Ainsley and the …