A survey of contextual optimization methods for decision-making under uncertainty

U Sadana, A Chenreddy, E Delage, A Forel… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently there has been a surge of interest in operations research (OR) and the machine
learning (ML) community in combining prediction algorithms and optimization techniques to …

[HTML][HTML] Inventory–forecasting: Mind the gap

TE Goltsos, AA Syntetos, CH Glock… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We are concerned with the interaction and integration between demand forecasting and
inventory control, in the context of supply chain operations. The majority of the literature is …

Machine learning demand forecasting and supply chain performance

J Feizabadi - International Journal of Logistics Research and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In many supply chains, firms staged in upstream of the chain suffer from variance
amplification emanating from demand information distortion in a multi-stage supply chain …

Pragmatic real-time logistics management with traffic IoT infrastructure: Big data predictive analytics of freight travel time for Logistics 4.0

YT Chen, EW Sun, MF Chang, YB Lin - International Journal of Production …, 2021 - Elsevier
When studying the vehicle routing problem, especially for on-time arrivals, the determination
of travel time plays a decisive role in the optimization of logistics companies. Traffic Internet …

An end-to-end deep learning model for solving data-driven newsvendor problem with accessibility to textual review data

YX Tian, C Zhang - International Journal of Production Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigate a data-driven single-period inventory management problem with uncertain
demand, where large amounts of textual online reviews and historical data are accessible …

From predictive to prescriptive analytics: A data-driven multi-item newsvendor model

S Punia, SP Singh, JK Madaan - Decision Support Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper considers a multi-item newsvendor problem with a capacity constraint (Z). The
problem has already been addressed in the literature using the classical newsvendor …

A decision integration strategy for short-term demand forecasting and ordering for red blood cell components

N Li, F Chiang, DG Down, NM Heddle - Operations Research for Health …, 2021 - Elsevier
Blood transfusion is one of the most crucial and commonly administered therapeutics
worldwide. The need for more accurate and efficient ways to manage blood demand and …

Artificial intelligence in smart logistics cyber-physical systems: State-of-the-arts and potential applications

Y Liu, X Tao, X Li, AW Colombo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logistics creates tremendous economic value through supporting the trading of goods
between firms and customers, thereby improving the welfare of the society. In order to …

[HTML][HTML] Order-up-to-level inventory optimization model using time-series demand forecasting with ensemble deep learning

M Seyedan, F Mafakheri, C Wang - Supply Chain Analytics, 2023 - Elsevier
Inventory control aims to meet customer demands at a given service level while minimizing
cost. As a result of market volatility, customer demand is generally changing, and ignoring …

Robust decisions for regulated sustainable manufacturing with partial demand information: Mandatory emission capacity versus emission tax

Q Bai, J Xu, Y Gong, SS Chauhan - European Journal of Operational …, 2022 - Elsevier
While emission tax and mandatory emission capacity regulations are widely implemented to
control greenhouse gas emissions, it remains unclear which will lead to better performance …