Problem definition: Observing the retail industry inevitably evolving into omnichannel, we study an offline-channel planning problem that helps an omnichannel retailer make store location and location-dependent assortment decisions in its offline channel to maximize profit across both online and...

A potential answer to retailer's shelf out-of-stocks (OOS), where the item is in store but customers cannot find it, is to employ third-party service providers to execute audits and corrections. However, given the nontrivial cost of executing external audits, it is still necessary to assess...

How should retailers leverage aggregate (category) sales information for individual product demand prediction? Motivated by inventory risk pooling, we develop a new prediction framework that integrates category-product sales information to exploit the benefit of pooling. We propose to combine...

How should retailers leverage aggregate (category) sales information for individual product demand prediction? Motivated by inventory risk pooling, we develop a new prediction framework that integrates category-product sales information to exploit the benefit of pooling. We propose to combine...