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International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management | 2013

An examination of the causes for retail stockouts

Joachim C.F. Ehrenthal; Wolfgang Stölzle

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to increase our understanding of the causes for stockouts in retailing.Design/methodology/approach – Mixed methods study, using instore observations, interviews with key informants in consumer goods and retailing, and a field study of stockouts and their causes in multiple wholesale stores over two years.Findings – The results indicate that the causes for stockouts are specific to retailer, store, category and item. Improvements to store operations and the coordination of store delivery and shelf replenishment are most effective in reducing stockouts. Manual audits of stockouts and their causes benefit instore execution and provide the level of detail necessary for management to prioritize areas of improvement.Research limitations/implications – Future research may investigate the operational and cost impact of incorporating demand seasonality in shelf replenishment that may lead to an improved coordination of replenishment and demand cycles.Practical implications – ...


European Journal of Operational Research | 2014

Demand seasonality in retail inventory management

Joachim C.F. Ehrenthal; Dorothee Honhon; T. van Woensel

We investigate the value of accounting for demand seasonality in inventory control. Our problem is motivated by discussions with retailers who admitted to not taking perceived seasonality patterns into account in their replenishment systems. We consider a single-location, single-item periodic review lost sales inventory problem with seasonal demand in a retail environment. Customer demand has seasonality with a known season length, the lead time is shorter than the review period and orders are placed as multiples of a fixed batch size. The cost structure comprises of a fixed cost per order, a cost per batch, and a unit variable cost to model retail handling costs. We consider four different settings which differ in the degree of demand seasonality that is incorporated in the model: with or without within-review period variations and with or without across-review periods variations. In each case, we calculate the policy which minimizes the long-run average cost and compute the optimality gaps of the policies which ignore part or all demand seasonality. We find that not accounting for demand seasonality can lead to substantial optimality gaps, yet incorporating only some form of demand seasonality does not always lead to cost savings. We apply the problem to a real life setting, using Point-of-Sales data from a European retailer. We show that a simple distinction between weekday and weekend sales can lead to major cost reductions without greatly increasing the complexity of the retailer’s automatic store ordering system. Our analysis provides valuable insights on the tradeoff between the complexity of the automatic store ordering system and the benefits of incorporating demand seasonality.


International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management | 2014

Value Attenuation and Retail Out-of-Stocks : A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective

Joachim C.F. Ehrenthal; Thomas W. Gruen; Joerg S Hofstetter


Archive | 2012

A Service-Dominant Logic View of Retail On-Shelf Availability

Joachim C.F. Ehrenthal


Archive | 2013

Service Dominant Logic : Its Past, Present, and Future Impact on Marketing Thought

Joachim C.F. Ehrenthal


Archive | 2012

A retail inventory policy for cyclical demand: the impact of ignoring demand seasonality

Joachim C.F. Ehrenthal; Dorothee Honhon; Tom Van Woensel; Joerg S Hofstetter


Archive | 2012

Service-dominant logic : Past, present and future (submitted)

Joachim C.F. Ehrenthal


Archive | 2012

Shippers' choice of cargo airport

Joachim C.F. Ehrenthal; Joerg S Hofstetter


Archive | 2012

Potenzial in der Filiale : Nachfrageschwankungen während des Tages einplanen

Joachim C.F. Ehrenthal; Wolfgang Stölzle


Archive | 2012

Value-attenuation in service-dominant logic : Insights from retail out-of-stocks

Joachim C.F. Ehrenthal; Thomas W. Gruen; Joerg S Hofstetter

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Thomas W. Gruen

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

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Dorothee Honhon

University of Texas at Dallas

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Tom Van Woensel

Eindhoven University of Technology

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T. van Woensel

Eindhoven University of Technology

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