In this paper, we consider a personalized assortment planning problem under inventory constraints, where the type of each arriving customer is defined by a primary item of interest. As long as that item is in stock, the customer adds it to her shopping cart, at which point the retailer can...

Problem definition: We study the dynamic fulfillment problem in e-commerce, in which incoming (multi-item) customer orders must be immediately dispatched to (a combination of) fulfillment centers that have the required inventory. Methodology/results: A prevailing approach to this problem,...

Product expiration is an important problem in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry costing 1-2% of gross retail sales and eroding industry profits substantially. It can be caused by several factors related to store operations, supply chain practices, and product demand characteristics....