The new science of retailing : how analytics are transforming the supply chain and improving performance / Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman.

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Introduction -- Retail valuation : how investors value product availability and inventory management -- Assortment planning : mining sales data to discover ´home run´ products you are missing -- Product life cycle planning : how to reinvent forecasting, inventory optimization, and markdown pricing -- Flexible supply chains : how to design for greater agility end to end -- Goal alignment : reducing perverse incentive misalignment -- Store-level execution : increasing sales through better availability of products and store associates -- Technological risk : how retailers should assess and manage emerging technologies -- Companywide implementation : managerial issues affecting implementation -- Conclusion : the way forward.