Retail store operations: Literature review and research directions

S Mou, DJ Robb, N DeHoratius - European Journal of Operational …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the digital age, retail store operations face a variety of novel challenges and complexities.
We review 255 papers on retail store operations from 32 operations research, management …

Fault tolerant central saga orchestrator in RESTful architecture

K Malyuga, O Perl, A Slapoguzov… - 2020 26th Conference of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microservices RESTful architecture is almost a standard for e-commerce web applications
today. It brings domain isolation, development and support independence. In the same time …

Real-Time Labour Allocation in grocery stores: A simulation-based approach

S Mou, DJ Robb - Decision Support Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Aligning staff with changing customer and store needs is key to store operations
management. There is considerable research on personnel scheduling, but little on the …

A constraint programming approach for solving a queueing design and control problem

D Terekhov, JC Beck, KN Brown - INFORMS Journal on …, 2009 - pubsonline.informs.org
A facility with frontroom and backroom operations has the option of hiring specialized or
cross-trained workers. Cross-trained workers can be switched between the two rooms …

Stability analysis of a two-station cascade queueing network

E Morozov, B Steyaert - Annals of Operations Research, 2013 - Springer
We consider a two-station cascade network, where the first station has Poisson input and the
second station has renewal input, with iid service times at both stations. The following partial …

Stability analysis of cascade networks via fluid models

R Delgado, E Morozov - Performance Evaluation, 2014 - Elsevier
In this work, the fluid approach methodology is first applied to find a sufficient stability
condition for a two-station cascade network: customers that are awaiting service at the first …

An overview of industry practice and empirical research in retail workforce management

S Kesavan, V Mani - … Supply Chain Management: Quantitative Models and …, 2015 - Springer
Retail store associates are frontline employees of retail organizations and are responsible
for delivering superior in-store experience to its customers. Store associates provide …

Modeling and analysis of the customer checkout process with flexible servers for a retail store

W Yang, S Takakuwa - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference …, 2017 - Springer
Staff should perform several jobs beside checkout operations during working hours in a
retail store. To maintain a high service level, those who are performing other jobs may switch …

Assessment of organizational policies in a retail store based on a simulation model

JR Coronado-Hernández, MA Macías-Jiménez… - … Information Systems and …, 2021 - Springer
This paper evaluates three organizational policies in a retail store by a discrete simulation
model in Simio®. The policies implemented were using one, two, or three express …

Analysis of a service facility with cross trained servers and optional feedback

D Arivudainambi, V Poongothai - International Journal of …, 2013 - inderscienceonline.com
This paper studies a problem faced by a service facility with front and back room operations.
The servers in the front room deal with serving customers, perhaps from a queue and those …