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Retailer Overview
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Topic
Source
Current
Information
Gathered
Expected
Information to
Gather
Overall retailer
presentation
-High level of
strategy
Retailer
-Current
Level(%)
30-40%
inventory
management
Report
Inventory
Strategy
Assortment
planning
-Portfolio of
-Long-term strategy for new
products by
products introduction as well as
different
SKUs rationalization
brands/markets
Press releases
Inventory turns
Use of
technology for
managing
operations
-Financial data
(publicly listed)
through 10 SIC
retailing
segment in 10year period
from 2005-2015
-Different Types
of Technologies
used
-Modernization
of retailing
-RFID- Pallet
tagging versus
Case tagging
50%
60%
100%
50%
References:
1. Gaur, Vishal; Fisher, Marshall L.; Raman, Ananth. "An Econometric Analysis of Inventory Turnover
Performance in Retail Services" Management Science 51.2 (2005): 181-194
2. Kesavan, Saravanan; Gaur, Vishal; Raman, Ananth. "Do Inventory and Gross Margin Data Improve Sales
Forecasts for U.S. Public Retailers" Management Science 56.9 (2010): 1519-1533
3. Metro Group Financial reports: http://reports.metrogroup.de/2013-2014/annual-report/
4. METRO Group and IBM create smart solution for retail that tailors in-store merchandising messages by
tracking product in real time. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/solutions/pdfs/ODC03116-USEN01a.pdf
5. Impact of the Radio Frequency IDentification (or RFID) technology in the retail industry.Case study: RFID at
the METRO Group, HBS Case Study 606053
6. Future Store Initiative http://www.future-store.org/internet/site/ts_fsi/node/mgroup_fsi/Lde/index.html
7. Press releases: http://www.metrogroup.de/en/media/press-releases
8. Supermarkets news: http://supermarketnews.com/metro-group
9. Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyNews?symbol=MEOG.DE
10. Deloitte Report: http://www.slideshare.net/fred.zimny/deloiittes-global-powers-of-retailing-2012