Retail requires efficient decision support to manage increasing product proliferation and
various consumer choice effects with limited shelf space. Our goal is to identify, describe and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop a holistic operations planning framework
for grocery retailing. The authors aim to identify, describe and structure coherent demand …

Retailers must define their assortments and assign shelf space to the items included in these
assortments. These two planning problems are mutually dependent if space is scarce. We …

Abstract Retail Category Management addresses a series of questions and demands
decisions for category managers on critical issues such as product assortment and shelf …

As the retail industry is evolving toward an omnichannel paradigm, we study a product
selection and shelf space planning problem faced by omnichannel retailers. We aim to …

The more customer demand is impulse-driven, the more it is space-dependent and the more
it is subject to variation. We investigate the corresponding problem of retail shelf-space …

Product proliferation and changes in demand require that retailers regularly determine how
items should be allocated to retail shelves. The existing shelf‐space literature mainly deals …

Category captainship is a retail category management practice where the retailer delegates
certain category decisions to a vendor, known as the category captain, to leverage the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore tactical planning in grocery retailing and
propose how process and integration mechanisms from sales and operations planning …

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 …