Background: Despite advances in monitoring and forecasting systems, natural disasters continue to cause significant human losses. During the response phase, fast decisions are required to allocate limited resources, particularly rescue helicopters, which play a key role in reaching inaccessible...

As the consumer market changes rapidly, retail networks require a system to optimize the quantity and assortment of goods. The authors develop and test theoretical and practical assortment optimization and distribution principles. The study aims to improve retail assortment management by...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted the attention of researchers and practitioners in supply chains and logistics (LSCs). IoT improves the monitoring, controlling, optimizing, and planning of LSCs. Several researchers have reviewed the IoT-based LSCs publications indexed by academic...