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E-commerce with major online retailers is changing the way people consume. The goal of increasing delivery speed while remaining cost-effective poses significant new challenges for supply chains as they race to satisfy the growing and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Adrien Rimélé , Philippe Grangier , Michel Gamache , Michel Gendreau , Louis-Martin Rousseau

Today's global supply chains face growing challenges due to rapidly changing market conditions, increased network complexity and inter-dependency, and dynamic uncertainties in supply, demand, and other factors. To combat these challenges,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Zhaoyang Larry Jin , Mehdi Maasoumy , Yimin Liu , Zeshi Zheng , Zizhuo Ren

Inventory management is considered to be an important field in Supply Chain Management because the cost of inventories in a supply chain accounts for about 30 percent of the value of the product. The service provided to the customer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-11 S. Narmadha , Dr. V. Selladurai , G. Sathish

Motivated by the application of energy storage management in electricity markets, this paper considers the problem of online linear programming with inventory management constraints. Specifically, a decision maker should satisfy some units…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Lin Yang , Mohammad H. Hajiesmaili , Ramesh Sitaraman , Enrique Mallada , Wing S. Wong , Adam Wierman

Online marketplaces increasingly do more than simply match buyers and sellers: they route orders across competing sellers and, in many categories, offer ancillary fulfillment services that make seller inventory a source of platform revenue.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Rene Caldentey , Tong Xie

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 study aims to inspect and evaluate the integration of database queries and their use in e-commerce product searches. It has been observed that e-commerce is one of the most prominent trends, which have been emerged in the business…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Mohd Muntjir , Ahmad Tasnim Siddiqui

One of the major issues with the integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid is the increased uncertainty and variability that they bring. If this uncertainty is not sufficiently addressed, it will limit the further…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Joshua Comden , Zhenhua Liu , Yue Zhao

Inventory management is a fundamental challenge in supply chain management. The challenge is compounded when the associated products have unpredictable demands. This study proposes an innovative optimization approach combining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Sarit Maitra

This paper explains four things in a unified way. First, how e-commerce can generate price equilibria where physical shops either compete with virtual shops for consumers with Internet access, or alternatively, sell only to consumers with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pedro Pereira , Cristina Mazón

In this paper, we deal with a storage assignment problem arising in a fulfilment centre of a major European e-grocery retailer. The centre can be characterised as a hybrid warehouse consisting of a highly efficient and partially automated…

General Economics · Economics 2023-05-18 David Winkelmann , Frederik Tolkmitt , Matthias Ulrich , Michael Römer

In this paper, we explore the challenge of assortment planning in the context of quick-commerce, a rapidly-growing business model that aims to deliver time-sensitive products. In order to achieve quick delivery to satisfy the immediate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Yajing Chen , Taotao He , Ying Rong , Yunlong Wang

We study a problem of an online retailer who observes the unit sales of a product, and dynamically changes the retail price, in order to maximize the expected revenue. Assuming the demand of the product is price sensitive, we are interested…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Chengcheng Liu , Mátyás A. Sustik

In this paper, we consider a realistic and meaningful scenario in the context of smart grids where an electricity retailer serves three different types of customers, i.e., customers with an optimal home energy management system embedded in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Fanlin Meng , Xiao-Jun Zeng , Yan Zhang , Chris J. Dent , Dunwei Gong

Assortment optimization is a fundamental challenge in modern retail and recommendation systems, where the goal is to select a subset of products that maximizes expected revenue under complex customer choice behaviors. While recent advances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Miao Lu , Yuxuan Han , Han Zhong , Zhengyuan Zhou , Jose Blanchet

We study a competitive online optimization problem with multiple inventories. In the problem, an online decision maker seeks to optimize the allocation of multiple capacity-limited inventories over a slotted horizon, while the allocation…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Qiulin Lin , Yanfang Mo , Junyan Su , Minghua Chen

We study the inventory placement problem of splitting $Q$ units of a single item across warehouses in advance of a downstream online matching problem that represents the dynamic fulfillment decisions of an e-commerce retailer. This is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Boris Epstein , Will Ma

In pursuit of a more sustainable and cost-efficient last mile, parcel lockers have gained a firm foothold in the parcel delivery landscape. To fully exploit their potential and simultaneously ensure customer satisfaction, successful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Daniela Sailer , Robert Klein , Claudius Steinhardt

A variety of goods and services in the contemporary world requires permanent improvement of services e-commerce platform performance. Modern society is so deeply integrated with mail deliveries, purchasing of goods and services online, that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Valentyn M. Yanchuk , Andrii G. Tkachuk , Dmitry S. Antoniuk , Tetiana A. Vakaliuk , Anna A. Humeniuk

We tackle online inventory problems where at each time period the manager makes a replenishment decision based on partial historical information in order to meet demands and minimize costs. To solve such problems, we build upon recent works…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Massil Hihat , Adeline Fermanian