Xu, Ping Josephine; Allgor, Russell; Graves, Stephen C. - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 11 (2009) 2, pp. 340-355
When a customer orders online, an online retailer assigns the order to one or more of its warehouses and/or drop-shippers to minimize procurement and transportation costs based on the available current information. However, this assignment is necessarily myopic because it cannot account for any...