The stowage decision determines how arriving products are distributed in a storage system or warehouse. In particular we consider the zone-stowage decision for large warehouses that are organized into distinct storage zones. An example would be a multi-floor warehouse where each floor is a...

We investigate how to use the guaranteed-service (GS) framework for multi-echelon supply chains when different parts of the supply chain are controlled by two different parties. We find that this framework is naturally well suited for decentralized decision-making, and we propose a specific...

Online purchases constitute about one tenth of US retail sales. The supply chains that support online retailing are fundamentally different from those that support traditional brick-and-mortar stores. Traditional solutions are not always appropriate to solve online retailing's operations...