The European Journal of Operational Research announces a feature cluster (=special issue) on "Digitalization and omni-channel retailing".
We invite high quality submission related to retail operations that are based on operational research concepts.
Omni-channel retailing and digitalization result in considerable challenges for the management and optimization of retail operations. The recent challenges have been mainly discussed in empirical research to identify the new phenomena. Now, 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 OR-based research on demand and supply-related issues in retail and consumer goods industries. This special issue is particularly targeting contributions concerned with quantitative model-based analysis, OR applications and OR-based decision support systems for the retail and consumer goods industry. Topics should be based on the industry background of retail or consumer goods and address innovative topics and applications.
Guest editors: Pedro Amorim (FEU Porto), Jan Fransoo (Kuehne Logistics University), Dorothee Honhon (UT Dallas), Alexander Hübner (TU Munich), Victor Martinez de Albeniz (IESE Barcelona), Heinrich Kuhn (CU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt), David Robb (University of Auckland)
Timeline
Beginning of submissions: Oct-1, 2018
Deadline for submissions: Mar-31, 2019
Closure of peer review process: Mar-31, 2020
The complete Call for papers including all details can be found at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-journal-of-operational-research/call-for-papers/feature-cluster-digitalization-omni-channel-retailing
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Jan Fransoo
Professor
Kuehne Logistics University
Hamburg
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