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.
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
arXiv:2508. 02721v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While powerful, the inherent non-determinism of large language model (LLM) agents limits their application in structured operational environments where procedural fidelity and predictable execution are strict requirements.
By Libin Qiu, Yuhang Ye, Zhirong Gao, Xide Zou, Junfu Chen, Ziming Gui, Weizhi Huang, Xiaobo Xue, Wenkai Qiu, Kun Zhao
arXiv:2607. 28488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can supply-chain AI move beyond isolated decision modules toward unified operational planning?
By Yunhao Liang, Xianqi Cao, Pujun Zhang, Yuan Qu, Yongzhi Qi, Ningxuan Kang, Max Z. J. Shen
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:2606. 29366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Balance-oriented multi-warehouse inventory allocation is a recurring decision problem in large-scale e-commerce supply chains, in which a fixed replenishment quantity is distributed across warehouses to balance post-allocation inventory coverage while accounting for demand forecasts and heterogeneous allocation constraints.
By Jintao Xu, Yingzheng Ma, Jiong Dong, Yongzhi Qi, Jianshen Zhang, Dongyang Geng, Anni Zhang
Balance-oriented multi-warehouse inventory allocation is a recurring decision problem in large-scale e-commerce supply chains, in which a fixed replenishment quantity is distributed across warehouses to balance post-allocation inventory coverage while accounting for demand forecasts and heterogeneous allocation constraints. In practice, allocation requirements are often scenario-dependent and expressed in semi-structured or natural-language form rather than as ready-to-solve operations research (OR) formulations.
arXiv:2606. 07403v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benders decomposition is a fundamental framework for solving large-scale mixed-integer optimization problems with complicating variables that, when fixed, yield significantly easier subproblems.
By Changkun Guan, El Mehdi Er Raqabi, Mathieu Tanneau, Pascal Van Hentenryck
arXiv:2607. 11138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid expansion of capabilities in Large Language Model (LLM) agents has exposed a critical architectural bottleneck: when agents are given access to a flat, monolithic registry of tools, the model must evaluate hundreds or thousands of options simultaneously.
By Prashant Devadiga, Abhishek, Adithya Mishra, Alok Singh, Amisha Sinha, Asit Desai, Gaurang Dahad, Harshit Bhushan, Mandati Pramod Reddy, Prakhar Gupta, Rupesh Patil, Siddhi Behere
arXiv:2608. 09343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-based optimization (SBO) evaluates executable policies under stochastic dynamics, but most methods treat the simulator as a black box: aggregate scores rank candidates without revealing why they fail or which policy logic should change.
By Jinbo Li, Chuanhao Li
arXiv:2608. 08528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI coding assistants incur substantial inference spend, and naive token-cost minimization often fails to reduce end-to-end cost once retries, escalations, and developer wait time are included.
By Srinivasan Manoharan, Junhua Zhao, Fangbo Tu, Haifeng Wu, Jian Wan, Maliah Rajan M, Ashwin Hegde, Mithun Sasidharan, Kalyan Chakravarthi Podamekala
arXiv:2606. 27611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operations Research (OR) provides a rigorous framework for high-stakes decision-making, but effective OR modeling requires substantial domain knowledge, mathematical abstraction, and solver expertise.
By Chuanhao Li, Xiaoan Xu, Dirk Bergemann, Ethan X. Fang, Yehua Wei, Zhuoran Yang