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Product assortment and space allocation strategies to attract loyal and non-loyal customers
Ralf Seifert, Anna Timonina-Farkas, Argyro Katsifou
Assortment planning deserves much attention from practitioners and academics due to its direct impact on retailers' commercial success. In this paper we focus on the increasingly popular retail practice to use combined product assortments with both "standa ...
2020A pilot study on eliciting human operations decision in purchasing and measuring their impact on supply chain efficiency
Rémy Glardon, Souleïman Naciri, Min-Jung Yoo, Yvonne Badulescu
This paper presents a methodology for eliciting the behavioural model of purchasers' decision-making in a supply chain environment. The objective of the work is to explicitly describe the relationship between a human user's behaviour and the resulting perf ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017Improving firm performance through sustainable operations
As concerns over environmental sustainability rise, corporations must extend their efforts to improve their environmental performance while at the same time realizing economic growth. The endeavor represents challenges on both strategic and operational fro ...
EPFL2017Equilibrium analysis in multi-echelon supply chain with multi-dimensional utilities of inertial players
Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Matthias Gurtner, Gajanan Bhanudas Panchal
In a supply chain, the importance of information elicitation from the supply chain players is vital to design supply chain network. The rationality and self-centredness of these players causes the information asymmetry in the supply chain and thus situatio ...
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2017Multi-agent modelling of electricity markets
This thesis describes the development of three conceptual models built to serve as decision support tools in liberalised electricity markets. The introduction of competition, higher uncertainty and decentralised planning requires new planning and analysis ...
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