For attended home deliveries, customers expect narrow delivery time slots that fit their personal schedules. This severely limits the solution space for delivery planning and thereby makes attended home deliveries costly and complex for retailers. As one remedy, dynamic slotting lets the firm...

Analyzing historical sales data to draw conclusions on the underlying demand structure is a central foundation for sales planning, e.g. in assortment and revenue optimization. This contribution focuses on estimating the choice behavior of demand segments as well as their distribution from panel...

In the challenging environment of attended home deliveries, pricing of different delivery options can play a crucial role to ensure profitability and service quality of retailers. To differentiate between standard and premium delivery options, many retailers include time windows of various...