Estimating the Stockout-Based Demand Spillover Effect in a Fashion Retail Setting

缺货 溢出效应 业务 库存(枪支) 产品(数学) 商业 营销 经济 产业组织 微观经济学 数学 工程类 几何学 机械工程
作者
Songtao Li,Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu,Susan Lu,Simin Huang
出处
期刊:Manufacturing & Service Operations Management [Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences]
卷期号:25 (2): 468-488 被引量:16
标识
DOI:10.1287/msom.2022.1135
摘要

Problem definition: In brick-and-mortar fashion retail stores, inventory stockouts are frequent. When a specific size of a fashion product is out of stock, the unmet demand might not be completely lost because of spillovers to adjacent sizes of the same style or to other styles. Little research has been done to study consumer response to stockouts of fashion products because researchers had limited access to proprietary data of fashion retailers and because it is challenging to estimate stockout-based demand spillover patterns using existing approaches due to the enormous number of stockkeeping units (SKUs) and frequent stockouts in fashion retail stores. To fill this void in the literature, we empirically estimate the stockout-based demand spillover effect in a fashion retail setting. Methodology/results: We obtain a large-scale data set from a fashion retail chain selling world-renowned sportswear brands. The retail stores in the sample are dedicated to products of a single brand. Using around 1.5 million granular and real-time sales and inventory records of 217 stores, 503 men’s footwear products, and 4,024 SKUs over a two-year period, we develop a difference-in-differences framework to estimate the stockout-based cross-size demand spillover effect. We demonstrate the validity of this framework by conducting a pretrend test and a placebo test. We find that roughly 51.7% of the unmet demand of an out-of-stock SKU spills over to adjacent sizes of the same style when they are in stock: 25.1% to the adjacent-larger size and 26.6% to the adjacent-smaller size. The cross-size demand spillover effect is larger in regular stores than in flagship stores, larger for casual sports shoes than for specialized sports shoes, and larger for low-price products than for high-price products. Adapting an existing attribute-based demand model to our setting, we estimate that roughly 20.2% of the unmet demand of an out-of-stock SKU spills over to different styles when they are in stock. Taken together, these estimations suggest that about 28.1% of the unmet demand of an out-of-stock SKU becomes lost sales. We further find that when stockouts are widespread among SKUs, stockout-based demand spillovers are significantly reduced, resulting in much increased lost sales. Managerial implications: First, we empirically quantify the stockout-based cross-size demand spillover effect and its impact on lost sales in a brick-and-mortar fashion retail setting. Second, our simulation analysis shows that incorporating the cross-size demand spillover effect into the sportswear retail chain’s proactive transshipment decision can substantially reduce its transshipment cost and improve its profitability. Funding: S. Li and S. Huang were supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant 72188101] and the Center for Data Centric Management in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University. Supplemental Material: The online appendices are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2022.1135 .
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