期刊
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
卷 60, 期 6, 页码 1434-1451出版社
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.1951
关键词
retail operations; inventory availability; empirical operations management; business analytics; online retail; ecommerce
资金
- Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management
Using a proprietary data set, we analyze the impact of the implementation of a buy-online, pick-up-in-store (BOPS) project. The implementation of this project is associated with a reduction in online sales and an increase in store sales and traffic. These results can be explained by two simultaneous phenomena: (1) additional store sales from customers who use the BOPS functionality and buy additional products in the stores (cross-selling effect) and (2) the shift of some customers from the online to the brick-and-mortar channel and the conversion of noncustomers into store customers (channel-shift effect). We explain these channel-shift patterns as an increase in research online, purchase offline behavior enabled by BOPS implementation, and we validate this explanation with evidence from the change of cart abandonment and conversion rates of the brick-and-mortar and online channels. We interpret these results in light of recent operations management literature that analyzes the impact of sharing inventory availability information. Our analysis illustrates the limitations of drawing conclusions about complex interventions using single-channel data.
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