Ananth Raman
There are 4 articles for this faculty member.
Incorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting
| Authors: | Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman |
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| Published: | April 13, 2007 |
| Paper Release Date: | March 2007 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
Benchmarking and forecasting firm level performance are key activities for both managers and investors. Retailer performance can be tracked using a number of metrics including sales, inventory, and gross margin. For operational reasons, the sales, inventory, and gross margin for a retailer are interrelated. Retailers often use inventory and margin to increase sales; and sales, conversely, provide input to the retailer's decisions on inventory and margins. Inventory and margin also influence each other. This research uses firm-level annual and quarterly data for a large cross-section of U.S. retailers listed on NYSE, AMEX, or NASDAQ to construct a model that examines the interrelationships among sales per store, inventory per store, and margin.
Published in 2003
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
| Published: | April 28, 2003 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Suddenly your supply chain is full of weak links, everything from terrorism to political instability to dock strikes. Could you and your customers withstand a disruption?
Published in 2000
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
| Q&A with: | Ananth Raman and Roy D. Shapiro |
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| Published: | November 20, 2000 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Dramatic change is taking place in today's supply chain, say HBS professors Ananth Raman and Roy Shapiro, and it's up to the general manager to assemble a team that can implement the new principles and practices the change requires.
Rocket Science Retailing
| Published: | August 7, 2000 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Retailers and e-tailers have enormous amounts of data available to them today. But to take advantage of that data they need to move toward a new kind of retailing, one that blends the instinct and intuition of traditional systems with the prowess of information technology.
