In business-to-consumer (B2C) parcel delivery the presence of the customer at the time of delivery isimplicitly required in many cases. If the customer is not at home, the delivery fails – causing additional costs and effort for the parcel service provider as well as inconvenience for the...

We compare several approaches for generating a prioritized list of products to be counted in a retail store, with the objective of detecting inventory record inaccuracy and unknown out-of-stocks. We consider both "rule-based" approaches, which sort products based on heuristic indices, and...

Omnichannel retailing and digitalization result in considerable challenges for the management and optimization of retail operations. The continued demand of quantitative insights, their practical need, and the growing availability of data motivates an increasing number of scientists and...