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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"assortment planning"”.
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Assortment planning in supply chains
… two-tier supply chain, manufacturers compete by assortments and/or wholesale prices. The wholesaler sets the optimal market prices of products from all manufacturers. Assortment planning under discrete choice models has been broadly studied, but these papers usually assume the setting of direct …
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Essays in Consumer Choice Driven Assortment Planning
Product assortment selection is among the most critical decisions facing retailers: product variety and relevance is a fundamental driver of consumers' purchase decisions and ultimately of a retailer's profitability. In the last couple of decades an increasing number of firms have gained the …
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An Integrated Framework For Configurable Product Assortment Planning
<p>A manufacturer's assortment is the set of products or product configurations that the company builds and offers to its customers. While the literature on assortment planning is growing in recent years, it is primarily aimed at non-durable retail and grocery products. In this study, we develop an …
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A Study of Assortment Planning Among Bridal Retail Buyers
… to examine and adjust as needed the Kang (1999) assortment planning model to fit the planning process of bridal retail buyers. Five buyers who are owners or managers of small, independent bridal retail businesses were selected purposively and participated in in-person interviews about their …
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Development of an Assortment Planning Model for Fashion Sensitive Products
… of this research is to develop an established assortment-planning model identifying procedures and activities for women's wear retail buyers. This research built three assortment-planning models: (a) a conceptual moddel based on a secondary data analysis, (b) a practical-use model based on …
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Optimization Of Strategic Planning Processes For Configurable Products: Considerations For Global Supply, Demand, And Sustainability Issues
<p>The assortment planning problem is to decide on the set of products that a retailer or manufacturer will offer to its customers to maximize profitability. While assortment planning research has been expanding in recent years, the current models are inadequate for the needs of a configurable …
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Developing a Retail Buying Model Based on the Use of Assortment Decision Factors
… profits without a strategic retail buying planning process. The purpose of this study is to develop a retail buying model for clothing retailers. In order to test the variables that comprise the retail buying model, the objectives of the study are to: (a) investigate important assortment …
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Prediction and optimization in school choice
… connection between stable matching and assortment planning, as well as methodologies on solving a new type of assortment planning problem, in which the objective is social welfare rather than revenue. Finally, I show how to further optimize the correlations between students' assignments …
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Segmentation strategies in urban retail : an application to nanostores in Bogota
… to apply the precision segmentation strategy in assortment planning, with the goal of identifying more valuable products for the pilot company. Considering that product market diffusion is the key to increase purchase intention in the nanostore market, using this strategy can allow the pilot …
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Dynamic Models under Uncertainty for Large-Scale Enterprise Systems
Many enterprise applications such as assortment planning, inventory control and supply chain management rely on forecasting, optimization and machine learning methodologies. While many methods have been developed for static deterministic systems there is a need for methodologies that are dynamic, …
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Data-Driven Decision Making for Online Retail Operations in Sourcing, Distribution and Assortment Personalization
… distribution, and personalization of an assortment. The E-SMART framework consists of three modules. The first module manages sourcing decisions and develops a framework to assist the e-tailer to decide if it should interact with a powerful main brand supplier or instead, procure items …
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Dynamic, data-driven decision-making in revenue management
… prices (Chapter 2). Second, we study a related assortment planning problem faced by Walmart Online Grocery, where before checkout, customers are recommended "add-on" items that are complementary to their current shopping cart (Chapter 3). Third, we derive inventory-dependent priceskimming …
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Product Returns Management in Online Retail
… whether to include the item in the retailer’s assortment. We complement machine-based prediction with automatically extracted image-based interpretable features. Insights suggest how to select and design fashion items that are less likely to be returned. Our illustrative machine-learning models …
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Algorithmic Advances for Fair and Efficient Decision-Making in Online Platforms
… be effectively integrated into the context of assortment planning. As algorithmic recommendations become integral to platform operations, a purely revenue-driven approach can result in highly imbalanced outcomes, leading to certain items receiving minimal exposure and exiting the platform in …