"Cloud Kitchens" are delivery-only facilities that house multiple restaurants. Food-delivery platforms operate such kitchens to exploit two advantages: (i) Location advantage, arising due to a cloud-kitchen's central location this enables lower delivery times to customers. (ii) Consolidation...

Problem definition: ``Cloud Kitchens'' are delivery-only facilities that house multiple restaurants. Food-delivery platforms operate such kitchens to exploit two advantages: (i) Location advantage, arising due to a cloud-kitchen's central location~--~this enables lower delivery times to...

Motivated by the rapid growth of the Cloud Cost Management and Optimization (CCMO) industry to support the exploding cloud-computing market, we study an infinite-horizon, stochastic optimization problem from the viewpoint of a firm that employs cloud resources to process incoming orders (or...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the critical challenges in the implementation of cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP). The challenges identified were customization, organizational change, long-term costs, business complexity, loss of information technology competencies,...