A marketplace is defined where the private data of suppliers (e.g., prosumers) are protected, so that neither their identity nor their level of stock is made known to end customers, while they can sell their products at a reduced price. A broker acts as an intermediary, which takes care of providing the items missing to meet the customers’ demand and allows end customers to take advantages of r...

E-commerce persuasive strategies are more effective when they are personalized. Using a sample size of 251 Amazon shoppers, we studied the effect of the persuasive strategies of the PSD framework on e-commerce customers based on 1) if they often review or rate products after purchase and 2) how long they have been customers of Amazon. Results of our analysis show that for the customers who ofte...

In today’s competitive business environment, it is extremely important to offer customers exactly the products they want. Mass Customization promises to enable companies to offer a large variety of products while still being able to manage the complexity caused by this increased number of products. But offering a large range of variants does not necessarily mean increased profits, as many manuf...

Nowadays, major challenges in the cold chain of perishable products, such as dairy products, are that these products do not reach customers on time. Answering the question of how to make the cold supply chain of perishable products more agile, the possibility of more control over this issue can be increased. This study tries to investigate the factors affecting the agility of the cold supply ch...

In this paper, we are going to study about recommendation systems. Recommendation systems are typically used by companies, especially e-commerce companies like Amazon.com, to help users discover items they might not have found by themselves and promote sales to potential customers. A good recommendation system can provide customers with the most relevant products. This is a highly-targeted appr...

Mathematical models have been used in many areas of supply chain management. In this paper, we present a mixed-integer non-linear programing (MINLP) model to solve a multi-period, closed-loop supply chains (CLSCs) with two echelons consist of producers and customers. In order to satisfy the demands, the producers are be able to order for materials in the beginning of each period for one or more...