arXiv:2607. 04056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern supply chains span diverse operational environments, ranging from e-commerce distribution networks to customized production-to-order manufacturing lines.
By Gal Neria, Michal Tzur, Marlin W. Ulmer
arXiv:2609.08071v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Firms making inventory decisions have access to operational data, optimization tools, and large language models (LLMs). Typically, data characterize th...
By Fenghua Yang, Preet Baxi, Yi Zhang, Stefanus Jasin, Yanzhe Lei, Mo Liu, Parshan Pakiman
arXiv:2606. 13604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dispatch in three-sided marketplaces provides a natural setting for reinforcement learning from world feedback: decisions are evaluated by delayed operational outcomes such as delivery speed, courier utilization, and merchant congestion.
By Haochen Wu, Yi Hou, Shiguang Xie
arXiv:2607. 21354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For years, supply chain planning at e-commerce firms has operated as a collection of isolated projects.
By Jiayin He, Yutong Pan, Sen Yang, Ningxuan Kang, Yongzhi Qi, Jianshen Zhang, Wei Qi, Zuo-Jun Max Shen
For years, supply chain planning at e-commerce firms has operated as a collection of isolated projects. Each planning task from static network planning to dynamic warehouse assortment planning requires analysts to spend weeks building models from scratch, calibrating and persuading executives to act on outputs they cannot verify.
Dispatch in three-sided marketplaces provides a natural setting for reinforcement learning from world feedback: decisions are evaluated by delayed operational outcomes such as delivery speed, courier utilization, and merchant congestion. We present a deployed reinforcement learning system at DoorDash that adapts dispatch objective weights in a large-scale food-delivery marketplace using delayed signals.
arXiv:2609.13561v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Efficient utilization of supply chain analytics for decision making remains a significant challenge for planners, as critical tasks such as database qu...
By Xian Yeow Lee, Teppei Inoue, Haiyan Wang, Chetan Gupta
arXiv:2606. 18820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential decision problems often exhibit an asymmetric evolution of information and decision flexibility: as a decision cycle unfolds, the agent receives richer information while feasible actions expire due to operational cutoffs, commitments, or resource constraints.
By Jiaxi Liu, Aiping Yang, Yuhang Yang, Shuqi Zhang, Zewei Dong, Jiangming Yang, Xuebin Chen
The paper presents a graph‑constrained agentic framework that enables large language models to adapt retail supply‑chain decision modules to evolving requirements. It jointly selects intervention routes and admissible module changes, validating candidates against downstream KPIs. Experiments with 100 warehouse requirements and three LLMs show the framework improves end‑to‑end success from 72–76% to 79–83%.
By Lei Zheng, Liping Yang, Zihao Li, Guodong Lyu, Chaik Ming Koh, Chung-Piaw Teo
arXiv:2606. 26852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Order fulfillment in manual picker-to-goods warehouses involves interconnected decisions such as item assignment, order batching, and picker routing.
By Janik Bischoff, Anne Meyer, Uta Mohring, Fabian Dunke, Maximilian Barlang, \"Ozge Nur Subas, Hadi Kutabi, Stefan Nickel, Kai Furmans
OR-Transformer is a deep reinforcement learning framework designed for joint replenishment in supply chain operations with thousands of items. It uses a permutation‑equivariant Transformer architecture and pathwise‑gradient training to handle high‑dimensional observation and action spaces. In tests up to 1,024 items, it outperforms both learning‑based and rolling‑horizon MILP baselines and cuts online decision time by over four million times.
By Shuze Daniel Liu, David Simchi-Levi, Claire Chen, Chutong Gao, Shangtong Zhang
arXiv:2607. 16875v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands and outsourcing options (VRP-SDO), in which a logistics service provider partitions customer requests into customers outsourced to a common carrier and customers committed to its fixed fleet.
By Mohsen Dastpak, Fausto Errico, Ola Jabali