Name
Abstract | ||
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The use of local store inventory for both in-store and on-line fulfillment can be preferable to the central warehousing of on-line stock in certain scenarios. Part of this appeal comes from the availability of various decentralized neighboring stores as sources for the on-line fulfillment of any given order. In this study, a range of substitute-inventory availability scenarios for these systems are simulated, under the assumption that transshipments to support in-store demand are not possible and the fulfillment of in-store demand is always a priority relative to on-line orders at a given site. Meta-models are used to summarize the dependency of performance measures on experimental factors and ultimately form the backbone for service constrained non, linear optimization. The findings show that there is a limit to which reductions in coordination costs for on-line source substitution and associated inventory availability decisions can provide benefit. This limit is influenced by both the proportion of the market managed through on-line sales and the service level constraints in place for both on-line and in-store channels. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2004 | 10.1016/S0305-0548(03)00102-3 | Computers & OR |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
in-store channel,on-line fulfillment,Simulation meta-modeling,substitute-inventory availability scenario,on-line stock,integrated inventory,Inventory management,in-store demand,local store inventory,on-line order,Non-linear optimization,on-line sale,associated inventory availability decision,on-line source substitution,Electronic commerce | Journal | 31 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
9 | Computers and Operations Research | 7 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.61 | 1 | 1 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elliot Bendoly | 1 | 315 | 16.16 |