Problem definition: Restaurants can provide catering services to customers through the traditional offline channel or online food delivery platforms. Platforms claim they deserve to receive a positive commission fee from restaurants as they help restaurants expand their market and gain access to...

Motivated by Fresh Hema, we consider a distribution system in which retailers replenish perishable goods from a warehouse, which, in turn, replenishes from an outside source. Demand at each retailer depends on exogenous features and a random shock, and unfulfilled demand is lost. The objective...

We consider a periodic-review perishable inventory system with multiple demand classes, each characterized by a different lost-sales cost and a least freshness requirement. Demands of different classes in the same period can be correlated, while demands across periods are independent but not...

Online-to-offline (O2O) refers to a new type of e-commerce that combines online order acquisition and offline on-demand order fulfillment service. The daily demand for O2O store is affected by both online and offline factors. Given the highly dynamic online operation and offline environment, the...