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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"stock keeping unit"”.
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Essays in Physicians Preference Items and Inventory Management within the Healthcare Supply Chain
… different approaches. The first one investigates stock keeping unit (SKU) proliferation in healthcare organizations due to physician preference items (PPI). It captures perspectives of physicians and supply chain professionals about this problem through two surveys. The second topic builds a …
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Optimization of ship-pack in a two-echelon distribution system
… include cases (e.g., cartons containing 24 or 48 units), inners (packages of 6 or 8 units) and eaches (individual units). For each Stock Keeping Unit (SKU), a retailer decides which of these ship-pack options to use when replenishing its retail stores. Working with a major US retailer, we have …
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An integrated stock assignment model for a warehouse fast picking area
Order picking and restocking of the fast picking area have been identified as the most labor-intensive and costly activities of any distribution center. In a picker-to-item process environment, traveling is an important factor than can account up to 50% of the total labor time dedicated to order …
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Achieving and sustaining an optimal product portfolio in the healthcare industry through SKU rationalization, complexity costing, and dashboards
… research effort, we develop a process for stock-keeping-unit (SKU) rationalization to reduce SKU complexity while maintaining sales volumes. We, also, implement operational models to compute complexity costs associated with SKU complexity and employ SKU portfolio dashboards to monitor SKU …
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Detection of phantom inventories at retail stores using a Bayesian approach
… Inventory on hand (IOH) record for each SKU(stock keeping unit) at any store is summation of on-shelf and back room inventory. Mismatch in this data impacts the product availability at a store and in turn results in lost opportunities of revenues for the store and the CPG (consumer product …
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Distribution and market share for different dimensions of product assortment
… FMCGs (fast-moving consumer goods) at the SKU (stock keeping unit) level? How does the branded variants strategy used by a FMCG manufacturer affect retailers’ stocking decisions and the corresponding distribution coverage in the market and the typical depth of assortment a retailer stocks for a …
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Ship-pack replenishment optimization in a two-echelon distribution system with lost sales and seasonal product obsolescence
… processing costs related to sending single units, or “eaches”, instead of units packed in full case quantities. Furthermore, for seasonal retailers, there are often times large obsolescence costs associated with products that reach the end of their life-cycle and are still stocked at the …
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Decision models for fast-fashion supply and stocking problems in internet fulfillment warehouses
… explosive storage policy. Breaking the single stocking location tradition, in an IFW small batches of the same stock keeping unit (SKU) are dispersed across the warehouse. Order fulfillment time performance is then closely related to the storage location decision, that is, for every incoming …
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Two Marketing Essays: Evolution Of Attribute-Specific Preferences Through Consumer Learning And The Effect Of Gift Exchange On The Purchase Behavior
<p>The first essay investigates the evolution of attribute-specific preferences through consumer learning. Most extant consumer learning models allow for learning about alternative-specific preferences such as brand preference in a brand choice model. However, there exist product categories which …