In the digital age, retail store operations face a variety of novel challenges and complexities.
We review 255 papers on retail store operations from 32 operations research, management …

Over the past decades, we have witnessed the rapid development of giant fashion brands in
the retail market which inspires a lot of operational research (OR) studies in fashion retail …

Fast fashion is a business model that offers (the perception of) fashionable clothes at
affordable prices. From an operations standpoint, fast fashion requires a highly responsive …

Retailing consists of all the activities associated with the selling of goods to the final
consumer. In this article, we review the research on retail operations published in …

A retailer's assortment is defined by the set of products carried in each store at each point in
time. The goal of assortment planning is to specify an assortment that maximizes sales or …

Emerging mega retail stores, mergers and acquisitions, and horizontal alliances have
redefined the power structure of the supply chain, which used to be manufacturer …

Problem definition: A fast fashion system allows firms to react quickly to changing consumer
demand by replenishing inventory (via quick response) and introducing more fashion styles …

Operations management (OM) researchers have traditionally focused on developing
normative mathematical models that prescribe what managers and firms should do …

The role of assortment planning and pricing in shaping sales and profits of retailers is well
documented and studied in monopolistic settings. However, such a role remains relatively …

Assortment optimization is a core topic of demand management that finds application in a
broad set of different areas including retail, airline, hotel, and transportation industries as …