Digitalization and omnichannel retailing: Innovative OR approaches for retail operations

Abstract Omnichannel retailing and digitalization result in considerable challenges for the management and optimization of retail operations. The continued demand of quantitative insights, their practical need, and the growing availability of data motivates an increasing number of scientists and practitioners to intensify research on demand and supply-related issues in retailing. This featured cluster provides the state-of-the art literature on forecasting and digitalization technologies, channel structures and delivery concepts as well as logistics in omnichannel and online retailing. The featured cluster contains 17 articles that deal with such topics.

[1]  Milena Janjevic,et al.  Designing multi-tier, multi-service-level, and multi-modal last-mile distribution networks for omni-channel operations , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[2]  Kushal Saha,et al.  'Buy online and pick up in-store': Implications for the store inventory , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[3]  Xiaofeng Shao,et al.  Omnichannel retail move in a dual-channel supply chain , 2021, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[4]  Pedro Amorim,et al.  On the Value of Subscription Models for Online Grocery Retail , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[5]  Andreas Mild,et al.  Facilitating consumer preferences and product shelf life data in the design of e-grocery deliveries , 2021, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[6]  Armagan Bayram,et al.  Order fulfillment policies for ship-from-store implementation in omni-channel retailing , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[7]  Yong-Wu Zhou,et al.  Impact of a "Buy-online-and-pickup-in-store" Channel on Price and Quality Decisions in a Supply Chain , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[8]  Heinrich Kuhn,et al.  Integrated order batching and vehicle routing operations in grocery retail - A General Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search algorithm , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[9]  Guo Li,et al.  Power structure and channel integration strategy for online retailers , 2019, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[10]  Victor Martínez-de-Albéniz,et al.  Here comes the sun: Fashion goods retailing under weather fluctuations , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[11]  Arne Strauss,et al.  Dynamic pricing of flexible time slots for attended home delivery , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[12]  Winfried J. Steiner,et al.  Modeling price response from retail sales: An empirical comparison of models with different representations of heterogeneity , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[13]  Frédéric Thiesse,et al.  Catch me if you scan: Data-driven prescriptive modeling for smart store environments , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[14]  Roland Langrock,et al.  Distributional regression for demand forecasting in e-grocery , 2019 .

[15]  Walid Klibi,et al.  Distribution network deployment for omnichannel retailing , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[16]  Pei Li,et al.  Retailer's vertical integration strategies under different business modes , 2020, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[17]  Benoit Montreuil,et al.  Showcasing optimization in omnichannel retailing , 2020 .