We propose a new approach for the vehicle routing problem with stochastic customer demands revealed before vehicles are dispatched. We combine ideas from vehicle routing and manufacturing process flexibility to propose overlapped routing strategies with customer sharing. We characterize the...

We study the classical multi-period capacitated stochastic inventory control problems in a data-driven setting. Instead of assuming full knowledge of the demand distributions, we assume that the demand distributions can only be accessed through drawing random samples. Such data-driven models are...