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In e-commerce markets, on time delivery is of great importance to customer satisfaction. In this paper, we present a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) approach for deciding how and when orders should be batched and picked in a warehouse to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Bram Cals , Yingqian Zhang , Remco Dijkman , Claudy van Dorst

In this paper, we consider the inventory management (IM) problem where we need to make replenishment decisions for a large number of stock keeping units (SKUs) to balance their supply and demand. In our setting, the constraint on the shared…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yuandong Ding , Mingxiao Feng , Guozi Liu , Wei Jiang , Chuheng Zhang , Li Zhao , Lei Song , Houqiang Li , Yan Jin , Jiang Bian

Supply Chain operation is an integrated business process starting from primary supplier to end user and the process produce products, services and information. A successful chain will explore technology, lean operations, and quality…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-04 Bidyut Biman Sarkar , Sugata Sanyal , Nabendu Chaki

In the context of Industry 4.0, data management is a key point for decision aid approaches. Large amounts of manufacturing digital data are collected on the shop floor. Their analysis can then require a large amount of computing power. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Mathieu Ritou , Farouk Belkadi , Zakaria Yahouni , Catherine Da Cunha , Florent Laroche , Benoit Furet

Algorithmic pricing is the computational problem that sellers (e.g., in supermarkets) face when trying to set prices for their items to maximize their profit in the presence of a known demand. Guruswami et al. (2005) propose this problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-13 Shuchi Chawla , Jason Hartline , Robert Kleinberg

Supply chain operations traditionally involve a variety of complex decision making problems. Over the last few decades, supply chains greatly benefited from advances in computation, which allowed the transition from manual processing to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Beibin Li , Konstantina Mellou , Bo Zhang , Jeevan Pathuri , Ishai Menache

Portfolio management via reinforcement learning is at the forefront of fintech research, which explores how to optimally reallocate a fund into different financial assets over the long term by trial-and-error. Existing methods are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Rundong Wang , Hongxin Wei , Bo An , Zhouyan Feng , Jun Yao

We study how large language models can be used to evolve inventory policies in online, non-stationary environments. Our work is motivated by recent advances in LLM-based evolutionary search, such as AlphaEvolve, which demonstrates strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenyu Huang , Jianghao Lin , Zhengyang Tang , Bo Jiang , Ruoqing Jiang , Benyou Wang , Lai Wei

Optimization problems are ubiquitous in our societies and are present in almost every segment of the economy. Most of these optimization problems are NP-hard and computationally demanding, often requiring approximate solutions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 James Kotary , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Learning-based model predictive control has emerged as a powerful approach for handling complex dynamics in mechatronic systems, enabling data-driven performance improvements while respecting safety constraints. However, when computational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Mark Benazet , Francesco Ricca , Dario Bralla , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Andrea Carron

Effective cross-functional coordination is essential for enhancing firm-wide profitability, particularly in the face of growing organizational complexity and scale. Recent advances in artificial intelligence, especially in reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jinyang Jiang , Jinhui Han , Yijie Peng , Ying Zhang

In response to the growing challenges of manual labor and efficiency in warehouse operations, Amazon has embarked on a significant transformation by incorporating robotics to assist with various tasks. While a substantial number of robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Owais Ahmed , M Huzaifa , M Areeb , Hamza Ali Khan

We consider assortment and inventory planning problems with dynamic stockout-based substitution effects, and without replenishment, in two different settings: (1) Customers can see all available products when they arrive, a typical scenario…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Shuo Sun , Rajan Udwani , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

As customer demand for multi-variety and small-batch production increases, dynamic disturbances place greater demands on manufacturing systems. To address such challenges, researchers proposed the multi-agent manufacturing system. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhen Zhao , Dunbing Tang , Changchun Liu , Liping Wang , Zequn Zhang , Haihua Zhu , Kai Chen , Qingwei Nie , Yuchen Ji

Predicting invoice payment is valuable in multiple industries and supports decision-making processes in most financial workflows. However, the challenge in this realm involves dealing with complex data and the lack of data related to…

Production Lines and Conveying Systems are the staple of modern manufacturing processes. Manufacturing efficiency is directly related to the efficiency of the means of production and conveying. Modelling in the industrial context has always…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Iyas AlTalafha , Yaprak Yalcin , Gulcihan Ozdemir

Optimal operation of chemical processes is vital for energy, resource, and cost savings in chemical engineering. The problem of optimal operation can be tackled with reinforcement learning, but traditional reinforcement learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Dean Brandner , Sergio Lucia

Supply chain management (SCM) has been recognized as an important discipline with applications to many industries, where the two-echelon stochastic inventory model, involving one downstream retailer and one upstream supplier, plays a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Mengxiao Zhang , Shi Chen , Haipeng Luo , Yingfei Wang

Excessive greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector have led companies to move towards a sustainable supply chain network design. In this study we present a new bi-objective non-linear formulation where multiple inventory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Meysam Mahjoob , Seyed Sajjad Fazeli , Soodabeh Milanlouei , Ali Kamali Mohammadzadeh , Leyla Sadat Tavassoli

We propose a simulated annealing algorithm specifically tailored to optimise total retrieval times in a multi-level warehouse under complex pre-batched picking constraints. Experiments on real data from a picker-to-parts order picking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Alexander Eckrot , Carina Geldhauser , Jan Jurczyk