Retail inventory management when records are inaccurate

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 257-277

  Dehoratius, Nicole ^a   Mersereau, Adam J ^b   Schrage, Linus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes rule; Inventory control; Inventory shrinkage; Record inaccuracy; Retail execution

Indexed keywords

AUDIT POLICIES; AUTOMATED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; BAYES RULE; BAYESIAN; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT TOOLS; INVENTORY RECORD INACCURACIES; INVENTORY SHRINKAGE; PHYSICAL INVENTORIES; RECORD INACCURACY; REPLENISHMENT POLICIES; RETAIL EXECUTION; RETAIL INVENTORIES; SIMULATION STUDIES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INVENTORY CONTROL; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; SHRINKAGE;

SALES;

EID: 56349112806     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1070.0203     Document Type: Article

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