Assortment optimization with log-linear demand: application at a Turkish grocery store

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2019-09

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Elsevier Ltd

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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

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In retail sector, product variety increases faster than shelf spaces of retail stores where goods are presented to consumers. Hence, assortment planning is an important task for sustained financial success of a retailer in a competitive business environment. In this study, we consider the assortment planning problem of a retailer in Turkey. Using empirical point-of-sale data, a demand model is developed and utilized in the optimization model. Due to nonlinear nature of the model and integrality constraint, we find that it is difficult to obtain a solution even for moderately large product sets. We propose a greedy heuristic approach that generates better results than the mixed integer nonlinear programming in a reasonably shorter period of time for medium and large problem sizes. We also proved that our method has a worst-case time complexity of O(n 2 )while other two well-known heuristics’ complexities are O(n 3 )and O(n 4 ). Also numerical experiments reveal that our method has a better performance than the worst-case as it generates better results in a much shorter run-times compared to other methods.

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Optimal-Algorithms, Genetic algorithm, Retail assortment, Model, Price, Substitution, Methodology, Products

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Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

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Q1

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50

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Hekimoğlu, M., Sevim, İ., Aksezer, S. Ç. & Durmuş, İ. (2019). Assortment optimization with log-linear demand: Application at a turkish grocery store. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 50, 199-214. doi:10.1016/j.jretconser.2019.04.007