Highlights Introducing the “window of decision opportunity” concept in e-tailing environment. Formulating source of fulfillment and inventory transshipment decisions in e-tailing. Proposing an efficient Benders decomposition solution algorithm for the problem. Providing managerial insights extracted from numerical experiments.

    Abstract We consider an inventory fulfillment-allocation and transshipment problem in an e-tailing environment. For a typical e-tailer, each customer demand is fulfilled from the closest fulfillment center if there are enough inventories. Otherwise, the e-tailer would transship stock from a nearby facility or transfer the customer order so it is fulfilled from another facility, depending on the economics of transportation. We develop a mixed-integer programming model to help e-tailers optimally fulfill customer orders while minimizing logistics costs. We propose a Benders decomposition-based approach to efficiently find optimal solutions. Our computational results demonstrate the importance of considering inventory transshipments in online deliveries.


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    Titel :

    Fulfillment source allocation, inventory transshipment, and customer order transfer in e-tailing


    Beteiligte:
    Torabi, S.A. (Autor:in) / Hassini, E. (Autor:in) / Jeihoonian, M. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015-04-17


    Format / Umfang :

    17 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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