Fast-fashion retailers such as Zara offer continuously changing assortments and use minimal in-season promotions. Their clearance pricing problem is thus challenging because it involves comparatively more different articles of unsold inventory with less historical price data points. Until 2007,...

Companies such as Zara and World Co. have recently implemented novel product development processes and supply chain architectures enabling them to make more product design and assortment decisions during the selling season, when actual demand information becomes available. How should such retail...

Problem definition: We study the practice-motivated problem of dynamically procuring a new, short life-cycle product under demand uncertainty. The firm does not know the demand for the new product but has data on similar products sold in the past, including demand histories and covariate...

We present a framework to analyze the process location and product distribution problem with uncertain yields for a large multinational food processing company. This problem consists in selecting the location of processes, the assignment of products and the distribution of production quantities...