Separation of Perishable Inventories in Offline Retailing Through Transshipment

Transshipment in retailing is a practice where one outlet ships its excess inventory to another with shortages. By balancing inventories, transshipment can reduce waste and increase fill rate at the same time. In “Separation of Perishable Inventories Offline Retailing Through Transshipment,” Li, Yu, Du explore idea transshipping perishable goods fixed finite lifetime offline grocery retailing. goods, customers typically choose newest items first, which lead substantial waste. They show that, this context, plays two roles. One balancing, well known literature. The other separation, new That is, allows retailer put newer older other. This makes it easier sell reduces as result.