Analytical Modeling Research in Fashion Business: An Introduction

Choi, Tsan‐Ming

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-1014-9_1

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“…Customers in turn receive a full or a partial refund for their returns according to the retailer's specific return policy. Over the past years, customer returns have been growing at a significant rate reaching up to 50% increase year over year for certain categories [4,29]. Article return rates vary greatly among retail industries, categories, brands, and distribution channels [3,19,23].…”

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SizeFlags: Reducing Size and Fit Related Returns in Fashion E-Commerce

Nestler¹,

Karessli²,

Hajjar

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery &Amp; Data Mining

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E-commerce is growing at an unprecedented rate and the fashion industry has recently witnessed a noticeable shift in customers' order behaviour towards stronger online shopping. However, fashion articles ordered online do not always find their way to a customer's wardrobe. In fact, a large share of them end up being returned. Finding clothes that fit online is very challenging and accounts for one of the main drivers of increased return rates in fashion e-commerce. Size and fit related returns severely impact 1. the customers experience and their dissatisfaction with online shopping, 2. the environment through an increased carbon footprint, and 3. the profitability of online fashion platforms. Due to poor fit, customers often end up returning articles that they like but do not fit them, which they have to re-order in a different size. To tackle this issue we introduce SizeFlags, a probabilistic Bayesian model based on weakly annotated large-scale data from customers. Leveraging the advantages of the Bayesian framework, we extend our model to successfully integrate rich priors from human experts feedback and computer vision intelligence. Through extensive experimentation, large-scale A/B testing and continuous evaluation of the model in production, we demonstrate the strong impact of the proposed approach in robustly reducing size-related returns in online fashion over 14 countries.

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