One advantage of online retail is that a large number of products can be displayed at low cost. However, online retailers must decide which of these products to carry in inventory (stock items), and which to order from suppliers when a customer places an order (non-stock items). In this paper,...

Managing the inventory is very important in any online organization to minimize “out of stock” and give better customer experience. In this paper, we have researched how different inventory techniques are being applied to make sure all products are delivered to the customers when ordered and...

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,...