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The Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP) is a fundamental optimization problem in supply-chain management, concerned with optimizing the flow of goods from a supplier to retailers. Over time, in response to demands at the retailers, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Marcin Bienkowski , Jaroslaw Byrka , Marek Chrobak , Neil Dobbs , Tomasz Nowicki , Maxim Sviridenko , Grzegorz Swirszcz , Neal E. Young

The joint replenishment problem (JRP) is a classical inventory management problem. We consider a natural generalization with outliers, where we are allowed to reject (that is, not service) a subset of demand points. In this paper, we are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Varun Suriyanarayana , Varun Sivashankar , Siddharth Gollapudi , David Shmoys

The Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP) is a classical inventory management problem, that aims to model the trade-off between coordinating orders for multiple commodities (and their cost) with holding costs incurred by meeting demand in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-13 David Shmoys , Varun Suriyanarayana , Seeun William Umboh

We study an online generalization of the classic Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP) that models the trade-off between ordering costs, holding costs, and backlog costs in supply chain planning systems. A retailer places orders to a supplier…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Benjamin Moseley , Aidin Niaparast , R. Ravi

In their seminal paper Moseley, Niaparast, and Ravi introduced the Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP) with holding and backlog costs that models the trade-off between ordering costs, holding costs, and backlog costs in supply chain planning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yossi Azar , Shahar Lewkowicz

In this paper we consider a combination of the joint replenishment problem (JRP) and single machine scheduling with release dates. There is a single machine and one or more item types. Each job has a release date, a positive processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Péter Györgyi , Tamás Kis , Tímea Tamási , József Békési

This paper considers using predictions in the context of the online Joint Replenishment Problem with Deadlines (JRP-D). Prior work includes asymptotically optimal competitive ratios of $O(1)$ for the clairvoyant setting and $O(\sqrt{n})$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Michael Dinitz , Jeremy T. Fineman , Seeun William Umboh

Warehouses are nowadays the scene of complex logistic problems integrating different decision layers. This paper addresses the Joint Order Batching, Picker Routing and Sequencing Problem with Deadlines (JOBPRSP-D) in rectangular warehouses.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Olivier Briant , Hadrien Cambazard , Diego Cattaruzza , Nicolas Catusse , Anne-Laure Ladier , Maxime Ogier

We consider vehicle-routing problems (VRPs) that incorporate the notion of {\em regret} of a client, which is a measure of the waiting time of a client relative to its shortest-path distance from the depot. Formally, we consider both the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Zachary Friggstad , Chaitanya Swamy

We present a unified framework for minimizing average completion time for many seemingly disparate online scheduling problems, such as the traveling repairperson problems (TRP), dial-a-ride problems (DARP), and scheduling on unrelated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Marcin Bienkowski , Artur Kraska , Hsiang-Hsuan Liu

We give new approximation algorithms for the submodular joint replenishment problem and the inventory routing problem, using an iterative rounding approach. In both problems, we are given a set of $N$ items and a discrete time horizon of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Thomas Bosman , Neil Olver

The online joint replenishment problem (JRP) is a fundamental problem in the area of online problems with delay. Over the last decade, several works have studied generalizations of JRP with different cost functions for servicing requests.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Tomer Ezra , Stefano Leonardi , Michał Pawłowski , Matteo Russo , Seeun William Umboh

The Continuous Periodic Joint Replenishment Problem (CPJRP) has been one of the core and most studied problems in supply chain management for the last half a century. Nonetheless, despite the vast effort put into studying the problem, its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Alexander Tuisov , Liron Yedidsion

We consider the following two deterministic inventory optimization problems over a finite planning horizon $T$ with non-stationary demands. (a) Submodular Joint Replenishment Problem: This involves multiple item types and a single retailer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Viswanath Nagarajan , Cong Shi

This paper considers the periodic-review stochastic joint replenishment problem (JRP) under Bookbinder and Tan's static-dynamic uncertainty control policy. According to a static-dynamic uncertainty control rule, the decision maker fixes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Mengyuan Xiang , Roberto Rossi , S. Armagan Tarim

The Container Relocation Problem (CRP) is concerned with finding a sequence of moves of containers that minimizes the number of relocations needed to retrieve all containers respecting a given order of retrieval. While the problem is known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-08 Setareh Borjian , Virgile Galle , Vahideh H. Manshadi , Cynthia Barnhart , Patrick Jaillet

In the Cumulative Vehicle Routing Problem (Cu-VRP), we need to find a feasible itinerary for a capacitated vehicle located at the depot to satisfy customers' demand, as in the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), but the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jingyang Zhao , Mingyu Xiao

\textit{Weighted shortest processing time first} (WSPT) is one of the best known algorithms for total weighted completion time scheduling problems. For each job $J_j$, it first combines the two independent job parameters weight $w_j$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Samin Jamalabadi , Uwe Schwiegelshohn

The capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) is one of the most extensively studied problems in combinatorial optimization. In this problem, we are given a depot and a set of customers, each with a demand, embedded in a metric space. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jingyang Zhao , Mingyu Xiao

We study the online traveling repairperson problem on a line within the recently proposed learning-augmented framework, which provides predictions on the requests to be served via machine learning. In the original model (with no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Swapnil Guragain , Gokarna Sharma
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