Tactics on Inventory Projections (2,242 words)

SKUs: 70,000, but 7,000 to 25,000 are stocked in its warehouses at any one time.

Catalog Success: What criteria do you use when deciding how much of any one product to stock?

Zientarski: We calculate things such as demand and demand variations, lead cycles and service-level goals. Our calculations are warehouse-specific, and every item must live on its own. It has its own demand variation for that particular marketplace served by that warehouse. So our calculations also depend on the size of the warehouse to which it will be shipped.