Successfully Managing Long-Tail Inventories - Inbound ...

By Jeff Bodenstab

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The concept of the long-tail retail environment refers to the extended downward slope of a unit sales curve that, when illustrated graphically, depicts a "long tail" as demand wanes toward zero.

Introduced by Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson in 2004, the term originally described Internet-based companies, such as iTunes or Amazon.com, whose environments are...

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The "Long Tail" of e-commerce standards – Technology ...

The Long Tail concept dictates that only 80 percent of a group will agree on using a particular standard. For electronic commerce, that's a problem given the emergence of competing formats for data transmissions. New technologies may offer a solution.

Business-to-business (B2B) data standards are popular mechanisms for ensuring uniformity among the independent organizations that collaborate in a...

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Written by Faisal in Cars

Porsche's most hardcore 911 is here, the 911 GT3 RS is based on the current generation (991) GT3 but the RS takes the volume up a notch with more downforce, more power, and less weight. The 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS is powered by a naturally aspirated 4.0 liter flat-six engine, the biggest displacement NA [...]

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