Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis

By Nicole DeHoratius, Ananth Raman. Management Sciences, 2008

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Integration of Online and Offline Channels in Retail: The Impact of Sharing Reliable Inventory Availability Information (2014, unknown): “Furthermore, DeHoratius and Raman (2008) report a considerable amount”
The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Retail Store Sales: A Longitudinal Study (2010, background): “DeHoratius and Raman (2008) find that more expensive products are associated with less inventory record inaccuracy. The magnitude of the effect of product variety and inventory levels on phantom products may differ across different product categories. We did not have category-level data with which t”
Retail forecasting: Research and practice (2019, background): “In addition, any forecasting algorithm that leverages system inventory information needs to deal with the fact that system inventories are notoriously inaccurate (so-called “Inventory Record Inaccuracy” or IRI (Dehoratius and Raman, 2008).”
A literature review on the impact of RFID technologies on supply chain management (2010, background): “DeHoratius and Raman [26] report that 65% of the inventory records in retail stores were inaccurate.”
Inventory Record Inaccuracy, Double Marginalization, and RFID Adoption (2007, background): “The problem of inaccurate inventory records and mis-placed SKUs at the retail level is widely discussed (e.g., Alexander et al. 2002; Raman, DeHoratius, and Ton 2001; DeHoratius and Raman 2004).”