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Dynamic lot-sizing models for retailers with online channels

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  • Xu, Haoxuan
  • Gong, Yeming (Yale)
  • Chu, Chengbin
  • Zhang, Jinlong

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This paper studies inventory replenishment planning problems for retailers with online channels. Such retailer is able to obtain advance demand information (ADI) in an environment of time-varying demands. We incorporate ADI into dynamic lot-sizing models to formulate the replenishment planning problems for retailers in three scenarios: (1) companies act as pure-play online retailers with customers homogeneous in demand lead time, (2) online customers are heterogeneous in demand lead time with priorities, and (3) retailers operate in a bricks-and-clicks structure, in which demands come from online and offline channels, with either independent or interactive channels. We formulate the problem in the general scenario of interactive demand channels as a mixed-integer linear programming model, and then develop a unified model through reformulation. Based on the optimality properties, we design a dynamic programming algorithm with polynomial running time to solve the unified model. The numerical experiments for several online retailers find that the method can significantly reduce the total inventory cost.

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  • Xu, Haoxuan & Gong, Yeming (Yale) & Chu, Chengbin & Zhang, Jinlong, 2017. "Dynamic lot-sizing models for retailers with online channels," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 183(PA), pages 171-184.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:proeco:v:183:y:2017:i:pa:p:171-184
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2016.10.020
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