Robert Boute
YOU?
Author Swipe
Guest editorial: EurOMA 2023 – a systems lens on operations Open
status: Published
Synchromodal replenishment under non-stationary demand: An illustrative case study Open
Synchromodal replenishment aligns transport mode decisions with inventory replenishment needs. We present a case study considering the simultaneous use of road and rail transport to replenish a distribution center in Belgium from a supplie…
Supervised learning for integrated forecasting and inventory control Open
We explore the use of supervised learning with custom loss functions for multi-period inventory control with feature-driven demand. This method directly considers feature information such as promotions and trends to make periodic order dec…
Evaluating the cost-emissions trade-offs of a modal shift in intermodal and synchromodal transportation planning Open
Accepted by: Aris Syntetos Intermodal transportation planning combines road with more sustainable transportation modes to encourage a modal shift. To evaluate the impact of a modal shift on transportation cost and emissions, we propose an …
The use of continuous action representations to scale deep reinforcement learning for inventory control Open
Accepted by: M. Zied Babai Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) can solve complex inventory problems with a multi-dimensional state space. However, most approaches use a discrete action representation and do not scale well to problems with mu…
Optimal robust inventory management with volume flexibility: Matching capacity and demand with the lookahead peak‐shaving policy Open
We study inventory control with volume flexibility: A firm can replenish using period‐dependent base capacity at regular sourcing costs and access additional supply at a premium. The optimal replenishment policy is characterized by two per…
Prescriptive maintenance with causal machine learning Open
Machine maintenance is a challenging operational problem, where the goal is to plan sufficient preventive maintenance to avoid machine failures and overhauls. Maintenance is often imperfect in reality and does not make the asset as good as…
A joint replenishment production-inventory model as an MMAP[K]/PH[K]/1 queue Open
sponsorship: This research was supported by the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen), grant no. G069016N. This work was also supported by the Additional Funding Programme for Mathematical Sciences, delivered by EPSRC (grant no. EP…