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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"stock-out"”.
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Determination of drivers of stock-out performance of retail stores using data mining techniques
… of performance variables such as between stock-outs and store attributes, and stock-outs and other variables including store sales, income and demographic data, as well as various aspects of inventory management data. This research uses three data mining techniques: multiple …
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Product & customer profiling for Direct Store Delivery (DSD)
… built. Based on the quantitative analysis, the stock-out at store shelf is simulated in order to understand the effects of DSD operations to the minimization of stock-out costs at the store shelf, a major benefit that DSD is assumed to generate. With the conceptual framework and the quantitative …
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A root cause analysis of stock-outs in the pharmaceutical industry
… continues to expand its global presence, product stock-outs in their pharmaceutical business unit have been consistently increasing. PharCo suspected that manufacturing quality defects were a major cause of stock-outs, reducing the production yield and preventing the company from meeting customer …
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An algorithm to determine the causes of inventory stock-outs in manufacturing firms
… led to an extremely low tolerance for inventory stock-outs. In such an environment, any shortage is costly, and understanding why stock-outs occur and how to prevent them is an important issue. However, the answer to the question of why stock-outs occur is not always easy to determine. …
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Improving online demand forecast using novel features in website data : a case study at Zara
… of forecasting censored demand during a stock out. Zara introduces thousands of new items each season across over 2100 stores in 93 markets worldwide [1]. The Zara Distribution team is responsible for allocating inventory to each physical and e-commerce store. In line with Zara's quick to …
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An Integrated Framework For Configurable Product Assortment Planning
… with relatively low sales volumes and the stock-out rates at individual dealerships (even with transshipments) are extremely high, pose significant challenges to traditional assortment planning models. This is particularly the case for markets such as the U.S. that mostly operate in a …
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Backroom space allocation in retail stores
… the performance of the store because it impacts stock-outs, customer service levels, and labor productivity. Moreover, extant literature suggests that backroom related operations contribute to a large fraction of the total retail supply chain costs. Thus, optimizing the management of backroom …
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Material planning and inventory management
… storage when the ports' time allowance runs out. A new ordering policy of (Q, R) continuous review model with forecast demand is developed to reduce inventory in the external warehouse. The policy parameters of four most commonly used paperboards are determined and simulations based on …
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Reducing transportation costs and inventory shrinkage in the Washington State tree fruit industry
Perishability and stock-outs are two sources of inventory inefficiency in the Washington State tree fruit industry. This thesis measures the size of these inefficiencies in terms of dollars per box, and describes five solutions, four qualitative and one quantitative, that seek to address them. To …
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SKU clustering for supply chain planning efficiency
… we calculated the incurred costs for being out of the optimal solution. This included both the effect of safety stock and the stock out costs. Our research created new insights into the comparable cost of under-forecasting and over-forecasting on safety stock and customer service level.
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Applications of risk pooling for the optimization of spare parts with stochastic demand within large scale networks
… cripple an entire FC. The exceptionally high stock-out cost associated with equipment failure means spare parts must always available when required. This is made difficult as Amazon does not hold any central repository of inventory at present - all inventory is held at a site-level. …
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Detailed Inventory Record Inaccuracy Analysis
… the IRI resistance method performs better on stock-out and lost sales, whereas error control method keeps lower inventory. Furthermore, this research also investigates the value of using a secondary source of information (automated data capturing) along with traditional inventory record …
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Evaluating the impact of adopting 3d printing services on the retailers
… 3D services are offered in the off-the-shelf stock-out situations as a one-way substitution. Utilizing the Markov Decision Process, a framework for queuing systems is developed to examine the performance of various production/inventory strategies that optimize the system’s performance. Here, …
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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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An Assessment Of The Contribution Of Prime Vendor Model On Availability Of Essential Medicines In Tanzania
… of Prime Vendor model in curbing drug stock outs at the health facilities, finding out the number of orders fulfilled at the health facilities through Prime Vendor model and assessing the effectiveness of prime vendor model in minimizing essential medicine order turnaround time in …
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A descriptive analysis of emergency care provided in Northern Somalia
… was a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out in all emergency units in Hargeisa and Garowe, the capital cities of Somaliland and Puntland respectively. A standardised WHO emergency care assessment tool was used to assess the performance of emergency care procedures in the emergency units. …
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Producing Malaria Indicators Through District Health Information Software (DHIS2): Practices, Processes And Challenges In Kenya
… interest in malaria indicators produced through routine information systems. Deficiencies in routine health information systems in many malaria endemic countries are well recognized and interventions such as the computerization of District Health Information Systems have been implemented to …
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Alignment in Supply Chains: Empirical Analysis of Strategic and Operational Decision Making in Supply Chain Operations
… reductions in the firm’s likelihood of inventory stock outs and expected stock out durations.</p>
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Recovering children’s reading: “Queer Treasures” of the Children’s Collection in Cork Public Library, 1922–1939
… themselves in this period, as repositories of stock out of step with the de-anglicisation momentum.
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Lowering outbound shipping costs in an online retail environment by making better fulfillment and replenishment decisions
… to reduce the cost and environmental impact of outbound shipping in this sector will become increasingly important. We investigate the impact of making poor fulfillment and replenishment decisions using data obtained from a large American online retailer. Then, we propose implementable - i.e., …
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