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Optimizing omnichannel assortments and inventory provisions under the multichannel attraction model

Assortment optimization presents a complex challenge for retailers, as it depends on numerous decision factors. Changes in assortment can result in demand redistribution with multi-layered consequences. This complexity is even more pronounced for omnichannel retailers, which have to manage assortments across multiple sales channels. Choice model…

General Management
By Andrey Vasilyev, Sebastian Maier and Ralf W. Seifert
in European Journal of Operational Research
August 2025, vol. 324, no. 3, pp. 799-813, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.01.035
Optimizing omnichannel assortments and inventory provisions under the multichannel attraction model
By Andrey Vasilyev Sebastian Maier and Ralf W. Seifert
in European Journal of Operational Research August 2025, vol. 324, no. 3, pp. 799-813, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.01.035
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Assortment optimization presents a complex challenge for retailers, as it depends on numerous decision factors. Changes in assortment can result in demand redistribution with multi-layered consequences. This complexity is even more pronounced for omnichannel retailers, which have to manage assortments across multiple sales channels. Choice model…
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Europe must choose: reform and resilience − or drift into irrelevance

Donald Trump has been called many things but his newest label – the great unifier of Europe – might just stick. That provocative notion may raise eyebrows in Brussels, Paris, or Berlin, but Mr Trump’s return could be the shock that finally compels Europe to do what it has long known it must: to become more self-reliant. The world has changed. Ru…

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By David Bach
in The National
14 June 2025
Europe must choose: reform and resilience − or drift into irrelevance
By David Bach
in The National 14 June 2025
Summary
Donald Trump has been called many things but his newest label – the great unifier of Europe – might just stick. That provocative notion may raise eyebrows in Brussels, Paris, or Berlin, but Mr Trump’s return could be the shock that finally compels Europe to do what it has long known it must: to become more self-reliant. The world has changed. Ru…
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