1 September 2015

Call for papers: "Inventory Systems with Consumer Behaviour Considerations"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Inventory Research.

Inventory plays a critical role in balancing supply and demand across different echelons in a supply chain. Inventory management and control systems, however, have been extensively studied with a focus on aggregate level analysis (for example, based on aggregate demand). Today, internet and technology development drive new economies and dramatically reshape the ways customers normally shop and purchase products. Consequently, the demand pattern is fundamentally different from that typically assumed in the literature.

In the past decade, although researchers’ interests have moved to individual customer incentives and behaviour, limited studies have been carried out on inventory systems with consumer behaviour considerations. This suggests a need for a better understanding of the impacts of individual behaviour on inventory systems. This special issue aims to fill this gap by publishing high-quality and timely theoretical/empirical findings on this topic.

The purpose of the issue is to present new findings in inventory systems with consumer behaviour consideration using quantitative models.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Optimisation-based decision models for addressing strategic, tactical and operational inventory problems considering consumer behaviour
  • Consumer behaviour analysis in inventory-related decisions
  • New role of inventory considering consumer behaviour
  • Modelling of consumer behaviour in inventory management
  • Inventory systems and customer search behaviour
  • Inventory and strategic customer behaviour
  • Risk and uncertainty of inventory systems considering consumer behaviour
  • Inventory, sales promotion and consumer behaviour
  • Using inventory to match customer supply with demand in two-sided markets
  • Inventory management in Omni channels with different customer behaviours

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 30 April, 2016

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