Recent global crises have caused unprecedented economic uncertainty and intensified retailers’ concerns over inventory risks. Mitigating inventory risks is critical to managing retail supply chains and restoring their norms after severe impacts. Problem definition: We study the allocation of...

Problem definition: Observing the retail industry inevitably evolving into omnichannel, we study an offline-channel planning problem that helps an omnichannel retailer make store location and location-dependent assortment decisions in its offline channel to maximize profit across both online and...

Delivery time promising is critical to managing customer expectations and improving customer satisfaction. Simply over-promising or under-promising is undesirable due to their negative impacts on short-term/long-term sales. Notably, we are the first to develop a data-driven framework to predict...