Integrating Anticipative Replenishment Allocation with Reactive Fulfillment for Online Retailing Using Robust Optimization

Problem definition: In each period of a planning horizon, an online retailer decides how much to replenish each product and how to allocate its inventory to fulfillment centers (FCs) before demand ...

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