Research on food waste has attracted particular interest in recent years. This development is relevant not only to reach the aim of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations to halve food waste by 2030 but also to tackle associated problems such as the wastage of other...

Innovative last-mile logistics solutions are needed to reduce delivery costs, traffic congestion, and pollution in cities. A promising concept in this context are truck-and-robot systems, as they enable significant cost and traffic reduction compared to classic truck deliveries. The system...

Framework for Retail Demand and Supply Chain Planning -- Empirical Insights, Quantitative Models and Software Applications for Master Category Planning -- Assortment and Shelf Space Planning -- Assortment, Shelf Space and Inventory Planning -- Assortment, Shelf Space and Price Planning

The increasing importance of integrated fulfillment concepts revitalizes bricks-and-mortar stores and puts them at the center of retail operations. So-called omnichannel (OC) concepts leverage stores to offer seamless and enhanced operations for offline and online shoppers. Stores are used to...

Purpose – Online retailing changes all retail systems significantly. The growing importance of online sales requires the creation of new fulfillment models. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how retailers develop from separate multi-channel (MC) to integrated omni-channel (OC)...

Purpose Because increasing product variety in retail conflicts with limited shelf space, managing assortment and shelf quantities is a core decision in this sector. A retailer needs to define the assortment size and then assign shelf space to meet consumer demand. However, the current literature...