[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 …

Data‐driven research in retail operations—A review

M Qi, HY Mak, ZJM Shen - Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We review the operations research/management science literature on data‐driven methods
in retail operations. This line of work has grown rapidly in recent years, thanks to the …

Marrying stochastic gradient descent with bandits: Learning algorithms for inventory systems with fixed costs

H Yuan, Q Luo, C Shi - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a periodic-review single-product inventory system with fixed cost under
censored demand. Under full demand distributional information, it is well known that the …

Adaptive inventory replenishment using structured reinforcement learning by exploiting a policy structure

H Park, DG Choi, D Min - International Journal of Production Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
We consider an inventory replenishment problem with unknown and non-stationary
demand. We design a structured reinforcement learning algorithm that efficiently adapts the …

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 …

Closing the gap: A learning algorithm for lost-sales inventory systems with lead times

H Zhang, X Chao, C Shi - Management Science, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a periodic-review, single-product inventory system with lost sales and positive
lead times under censored demand. In contrast to the classical inventory literature, we …

Nonparametric learning algorithms for joint pricing and inventory control with lost sales and censored demand

B Chen, X Chao, C Shi - Mathematics of Operations …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a joint pricing and inventory control problem in which the customer's response
to selling price and the demand distribution are not known a priori. Unsatisfied demand is …

Perishable inventory systems: Convexity results for base-stock policies and learning algorithms under censored demand

H Zhang, X Chao, C Shi - Operations Research, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
We develop the first nonparametric learning algorithm for periodic-review perishable
inventory systems. In contrast to the classical perishable inventory literature, we assume that …

[HTML][HTML] Big data driven order-up-to level model: Application of machine learning

JBB Clausen, H Li - Computers & Operations Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Data driven optimisation has become one of the research frontiers in operations
management and operations research. Likewise, the recent academic interest in big data …

A distributionally robust optimization approach for multi-product inventory decisions with budget constraint and demand and yield uncertainties

R Qiu, Y Sun, M Sun - Computers & Operations Research, 2021 - Elsevier
This study develops a distributionally robust optimization approach for inventory decisions
for a retailer with limited budget ordering multiple products from multiple suppliers. The …