Seminar Series

2024 - 2025

Speaker: Virginie Lurkin (UNIL) 

Title: “A tactical time slot management problem under mixed logit demand ”.

joint with Dorsa Abdolhamidi (UNIL)

Date: Thursday, 16 October at 12h00 (Paris Time).

Abstract: The growth of e-commerce has led to an increase in home delivery requests, including those for attended home deliveries on subscription-based platforms. To accommodate customer availability, many online retailers offer various delivery time slots. This paper introduces a tactical time slot management problem for subscription-based e-retailers, focusing on slot assortment and price discounts. The novelty of our model lies in incorporating customers’ heterogeneous preferences regarding delivery slots, captured through a mixed logit choice model. The resulting stochastic problem is formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming relying on simulations. We utilize a simulation-based adaptive large neighborhood search to solve this problem efficiently for large instances. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, particularly in addressing uncertain heterogeneous customer behavior when optimizing assortment and pricing strategies.

Here are links to the speaker’s website and the FEELab website:

https://www.unil.ch/hecgrandchallenges/en/home/menuinst/researchers/virginie-lurkin.html

https://sites.google.com/view/feelabtbs/

You are cordially invited to participate in the following seminar of the FEELab, which will take place in Room 727-730, Sebastopol building.

For more information, please contact: Pierre Mella-Barral p.mella-barral@tbs-education.fr or cam-ly.tran@tbs-education.fr