A deep q-learning-based optimization of the inventory control in a linear process chain

MA Dittrich, S Fohlmeister - Production Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Due to growing globalized markets and the resulting globalization of production networks
across different companies, inventory and order optimization is becoming increasingly …

Inventory control of multiple perishable goods using deep reinforcement learning for sustainable environment

M Selukar, P Jain, T Kumar - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Perishable goods like fresh produce are growing part of today's e-commerce projects. Due
to their perishable nature, traditionally they have accounted for a high share in the inventory …

Reinforcement learning approach for multi-period inventory with stochastic demand

M Shakya, HY Ng, DJ Ong, BS Lee - IFIP International Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Finding an optimal solution to multi-period inventory ordering decision problems with
uncertain demand is important for any manufacturing organization. Moreover, these …

Adaptive inventory replenishment using structured reinforcement learning by exploiting a policy structure

H Park, DG Choi, D Min - International Journal of Production Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
We consider an inventory replenishment problem with unknown and non-stationary
demand. We design a structured reinforcement learning algorithm that efficiently adapts the …

Applying and comparing policy gradient methods to multi-echelon supply chains with uncertain demands and lead times

JC Alves, DM Silva, GR Mateus - International Conference on Artificial …, 2021 - Springer
In the present work, we have applied and compared Deep Reinforcement Learning
techniques to solve a problem usually addressed with Operations Research tools. State-of …

Deep reinforcement learning approach for capacitated supply chain optimization under demand uncertainty

Z Peng, Y Zhang, Y Feng, T Zhang… - 2019 Chinese …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the global trade competition becoming further intensified, Supply Chain Management
(SCM) technology has become critical to maintain competitive advantages for enterprises …

A policy gradient based reinforcement learning method for supply chain management

Y Hachaïchi, Y Chemingui… - 2020 4th International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technological advances of the recent decades have significantly affected the business
world, the retail business in particular. Retailers need to innovate to maintain a competitive …

[HTML][HTML] An analysis of multi-agent reinforcement learning for decentralized inventory control systems

M Mousa, D van de Berg, N Kotecha… - Computers & Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Most solutions to the inventory management problem assume a centralization of information
that is incompatible with organizational constraints in supply chain networks. The problem …

Learning to Minimize Cost to Serve for Multi-Node Multi-Product Order Fulfilment in Electronic Commerce

P Pathakota, K Zaid, A Dhara, H Meisheri… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In the retail industry, electronic commerce (e-commerce) has grown quickly in the last
decade and has further accelerated as a result of movement restrictions during the …

A minibatch-sgd-based learning meta-policy for inventory systems with myopic optimal policy

J Lyu, J Xie, S Yuan, Y Zhou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16181, 2024 - arxiv.org
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has proven effective in solving many inventory control
problems with demand learning. However, it often faces the pitfall of an infeasible target …