We study in this paper a revenue management problem with add-on discounts. The problem is motivated by the practice in the video game industry, where a retailer offers discounts on selected supportive products (e.g. video games) to customers who have also purchased the core products (e.g. video...

Product expiration is an important problem in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry costing 1-2% of gross retail sales and eroding industry profits substantially. It can be caused by several factors related to store operations, supply chain practices, and product demand characteristics....

This work is motivated by our collaboration with a large consumer packaged goods (CPG) company. We have found that while the company appreciates the advantages of dynamic pricing, they deem it operationally much easier to plan out a static price calendar in advance.We investigate the efficacy of...

Problem definition: Fulfillment flexibility, the ability of distribution centers (DCs) to fulfill demand originating from other DCs, can help e-retailers reduce lost sales and improve service quality. As the cost of full flexibility is prohibitive, we seek to understand the value of partially...

Motivated by the empirical evidence observed from the real-world dataset, this paper studies context-based dynamic pricing with separable demand models. Consider a seller selling products over a finite horizon of $T$ periods and facing an unknown expected demand function that admits a separable...