A data-driven newsvendor problem: from data to decision

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2019.04.043zbMath1430.90021OpenAlexW2783805549MaRDI QIDQ1999637

Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Sebastian Müller, Jakob Huber, Moritz Fleischmann

Publication date: 27 June 2019

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.04.043

zbMATH Keywords

inventoryquantile regressionmachine learningnewsvendorretail

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05)

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Uses Software

• R
• forecast
• Forecast
• expsmooth
• Adam
• LightGBM

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