Asset utilization is a major mid-term lever to increase shareholder value creation. Since rough-cut planning of capacity (dis-)investments is performed at the long-term level, detailed timing of adjustments remains for the mid-term level. In combination with capacity control measures, capacity...

This article focuses on the tactical problem of selecting delivery patterns according to which grocery stores are repetitively supplied with products from different order segments by retail-owned distribution centers. The research environment considered consists of logistics processes in DCs,...

Retail requires efficient decision support to manage increasing product proliferation and various consumer choice effects with limited shelf space. Our goal is to identify, describe and compare decision support systems for category planning. This research analyzes quantitative models and...