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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Online retailer"”.
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Modelling 3D product visualisation for the online retailer
… (3D) product visualisations, within online retailers. In addition, this research aims to identify the main advantages of using 3D product visualisation in comparison to two-dimensional (2D) static pictures within online retailers. Moreover, using the online Stimulus-Organism-Responses …
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Operations management in a large online retailer : inventory, scheduling and picking
Online retail has grown rapidly in the last decade. Consumers enjoy the convenience of online shopping and home delivery, as well as a vast product assortment. From the business perspective, serving customers directly from warehouses reduces investment needed in physical storefronts. In this …
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Multi-period optimal network flow and pricing strategy for commodity online retailer
This thesis aims to study the network of a nationwide distributor of a commodity product. As we cannot disclose the actual product for competitive reasons, we will present the research in terms of a similar, representative product, namely salt for ice prevention across United States. The …
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Distribution Network Optimization to Reduce Process Variability and Improve Throughput for an Online Retailer
In moving from standard two-day to single-day shipping, Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FC) must stock an increasing variety of product in inventory. Amazon uses a hub and spoke model where Inbound Cross-Dock (IXD) facilities split and ship large quantities of vendor product efficiently to numerous …
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Inventory planning for low demand items in online retailing
A large online retailer strategically stocks inventory for SKUs with low demand. The motivations are to provide a wide range of selections and faster customer fulfillment service. We assume the online retailer has the technological capability to manage and control the inventory globally: all …
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Order Fulfillment Algorithms for Online Retail
We study an order fulfillment problem in an online-retail setting where the retailer’s fulfillment system includes warehouses that hold inventory (fulfillment centers), and a transportation network composed of node facilities and transportation arcs. To minimize the total transportation costs for …
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Cycle-time analysis and improvement using lean methods within a retail distribution center
… of the main inputs in determining how quickly an online retailer can promise customer order delivery. The faster the fulfillment cycle-time, the later an order can be received and still make the appropriate truck for guaranteed, on-time arrival (e.g. same-day, next day, 3-5 business days). Thus, …
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Analyzing Inventory Placement of Low-Volume Items in Online Retail
… consistently difficult challenge for many large online retailers. This problem is exacerbated when dealing with low-volume items, which often occupy a disproportionately large proportion of inventory space and resources. This research lays out a foundation for investigating how to optimally place …
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Inventory management for perishable goods using simulation methods
Amazon.com is the world's largest online retailer, and continues to grow its business by expanding into new markets and new product lines that have not traditionally been sold online. These product categories create new challenges to inventory and operations management. One example of this new type …
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Efficiency comparison of online and offline markets: evidence from the two largest U.S. retailers
The online market has developed into an equally strong competitor to the offline market. This study examines the market efficiency of the U.S. online and offline market based on the price level, price dispersion, price elasticity and menu cost. A direct comparison of all four market efficiency …
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Analysis of email and phone queuing systems in a world-wide contact center network
… email are examined using a case study at a major online retailer. A model is also introduced for email service level planning, that allows for the fact that typical response times are much longer than for phone calls.
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Organizational Trust, Intrinsic Motivation and Discretionary Effort: Three Studies
… sample of working adults, an intervention at an online retailer and a neuroeconomics experiment to quantify how organizational trust and intrinsic motivation improves outcomes for businesses and employees. Analysis of the national sample showed that organizational trust and alignment with the …
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Ecosystem Orchestration for Firm Growth: A Longitudinal Case Study
… case study of JD Group, China’s largest online retailer and its biggest overall retailer, is conducted to verify and elaborate on this emergent theory. It reveals a double-loop model of ecosystem-based corporate growth. The micro/internal loop consists of the process of ecosystem leverage …
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Lowering outbound shipping costs in an online retail environment by making better fulfillment and replenishment decisions
As online retailing - or e-tailing - continues to grow as more and more customers buy physical goods on the internet, finding ways to reduce the cost and environmental impact of outbound shipping in this sector will become increasingly important. We investigate the impact of making poor fulfillment …
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Learning and Optimization in Modern Retail
… the practice of operations management for retailers and wholesalers, testing and implementing them in partnership with industry collaborators. We begin by tackling the problem faced by an online retailer that receives orders sequentially and must decide from which of its warehouses to ship …
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Analytics for online markets
Online markets are becoming increasingly important in today's world as more people gain access to the internet. Furthermore, the explosion of data that is collected via these online markets provides us with new opportunities to use analytics techniques to design markets and optimize tactical …
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Operational decisions and learning for multiproduct retail
… The third section, motivated by data from an online retailer, describes sales of durable goods online, focusing on the effects of uncertainty about product quality and learning from customer reviews. We describe the nature of the tradeoff between learning product quality over time and …
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Dynamic, data-driven decision-making in revenue management
… they could be sold, framing it as a general online resource allocation problem and developing a system of forecast-independent bid prices (Chapter 2). Second, we study a related assortment planning problem faced by Walmart Online Grocery, where before checkout, customers are recommended …
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Scalable Models and Policy Learning for Online Marketplaces
… scalable models and policy learning methods for online marketplaces. The underlying theme across all chapters is the development of data-driven practical solutions that help improve business operations and customer experiences in e-commerce. The first chapter offers a new perspective on creating …
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Essays on the Industrial Organization of Retail Markets
<p>I study the industrial organization of both online and offline retail markets, trying to uncover the impact of recent trends in this industry, namely store brand and big data. Chapter 2 gives a detailed discussion about the data collection and analysis process in both online and offline retail …
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