This study considers a supply chain that consists of n retailers, each of them facing a newsvendor problem, m warehouses and a supplier. The retailers are supplied with a single product via some warehouses. In these warehouses, the ordered amounts of goods of these retailers become available after some lead time. At the time that the goods arrive at the warehouses, demand realizations are known...

In many contexts, logistics is used to enable competitive advantages and cost savings. For some companies, logistics itself is its core competency (i.e. logistics providers). In this context, vendor-managed inventory (VMI) systems are one of the most up-to-date strategies allowing companies to reach a superior performance. Under a VMI strategy, the replenishment and distribution making process ...

This paper describes the rationale behind a study of hybrid retailers. These retailers employ both electronic and physical channels to support the downstream sales of goods and services to end users. It is hypothesized that hybrid retailers are able to exploit synergies between physical and electronic channels that enable them to better attract new customers and retain existing ones. Potential ...

We consider the stochastic capacitated transshipment problem for freight transportation where an optimal location of the transshipment facilities, which minimizes the total cost, must be found. The total cost is given by the sum of the total fixed cost plus the expected minimum total flow cost, when the throughput costs of the facilities are random variables with unknown probability distributio...

A key question for Internet commerce is the nature of competition with traditional brick-andmortar retailers. Although traditional retailers vastly outsell Internet retailers in most product categories, research on Internet retailing has almost entirely neglected this fundamental dimension of competition. How and where can Internet retailers win this battle? To answer this question, we collect ...

data mining techniques have been used widely in the area of customer relationship management (crm). in this study, we have applied data mining techniques to address a problem in business-to-business (b2b) setting. in a manufacturer-retailer-consumer chain, a manufacturer should improve its relationship with retailers to continue its business. segmentation is a useful tool for identifying groups...