Item Aggregation and Column Generation for Online-Retail Inventory Placement

Problem definition : This paper studies an online retailer’s problem of choosing fulfillment centers in which to place items. We formulate the problem as a mixed-integer program that models thousands or millions of items to be placed in dozens of fulfillment centers and shipped to dozens of customer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chen, Annie I., Graves, Stephen C.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132952