<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Shahab Derhami — Blog</title><description>Shahab Derhami is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics and Operations at the School of Management, Binghamton University, working on business analytics for supply chain management, warehouse design and retail distribution networks.</description><link>https://www.shahabderhami.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Estimation of potential lost sales in retail networks of high-value substitutable products</title><link>https://www.shahabderhami.com/research/estimation-of-potential-lost-sales-in-retail-networks-of-high-value-substitutable-products/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.shahabderhami.com/research/estimation-of-potential-lost-sales-in-retail-networks-of-high-value-substitutable-products/</guid><description>Knowledge of products’ demand is the cornerstone of many tactical and planning decisions in supply chain systems, such as supply planning, assortment planning, inventory management, and production and logistics planning.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:30:05 GMT</pubDate><category>Research</category><category>demand estimation</category><category>inventory transshipment</category><category>lost sales</category><category>product demand</category><category>stockout-based substitution</category><category>vehicle dealerships</category></item><item><title>Assessing product availability in retail networks</title><link>https://www.shahabderhami.com/research/assessing-product-availability-in-retail-networks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.shahabderhami.com/research/assessing-product-availability-in-retail-networks/</guid><description>The ultimate goal of any business is to provide its customers with the products or services they need at the right time and right place (i.e., the customer’s desired location).</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:14:26 GMT</pubDate><category>Research</category><category>customer substitution</category><category>inventory management</category><category>inventory transshipment</category><category>product availability</category></item><item><title>A simulation-based optimization approach to design optimal layouts for block stacking warehouses</title><link>https://www.shahabderhami.com/research/a-simulation-based-optimization-approach-to-design-optimal-layouts-for-block-stacking-warehouses/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.shahabderhami.com/research/a-simulation-based-optimization-approach-to-design-optimal-layouts-for-block-stacking-warehouses/</guid><description>This post describes the paper that I recently published in the International Journal of Production Economics with Jeffrey Smith and Kevin Gue on deigning layouts for block stacking warehouses. You…</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 18:46:54 GMT</pubDate><category>Research</category><category>Block stacking</category><category>Cross-aisles</category><category>Lane depth</category><category>Material handling cost</category><category>Palletized warehouse</category><category>Space utilization</category><category>Warehouse design</category><category>Warehouse layout</category></item><item><title>Designing optimal layouts for block stacking warehouses</title><link>https://www.shahabderhami.com/research/designing-optimal-layouts-for-block-stacking-warehouses/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.shahabderhami.com/research/designing-optimal-layouts-for-block-stacking-warehouses/</guid><description>Recently, I published a paper in IISE Transactions with Jeffrey Smith and Kevin Gue on designing space-efficient layouts for block stacking warehouses. Block stacking warehouses are palletized warehouses in which…</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:49:01 GMT</pubDate><category>Research</category><category>Block stacking</category><category>Lane depth</category><category>Palletized warehouse</category><category>Space utilization</category><category>Warehouse design</category><category>Warehouse layout</category></item><item><title>Optimal lane depth for block stacking</title><link>https://www.shahabderhami.com/research/optimal-lane-depth-for-block-stacking/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.shahabderhami.com/research/optimal-lane-depth-for-block-stacking/</guid><description>About more than a year ago, I published a paper with Jeffrey Smith and Kevin Gue in the International Journal of Production Research on the optimal lane depth for block…</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:36:04 GMT</pubDate><category>Research</category><category>Block stacking</category><category>Lane depth</category><category>Space utilization</category><category>Warehouse design</category><category>Warehouse layout</category></item><item><title>Thanks Auburn!</title><link>https://www.shahabderhami.com/personal-life/thanks-auburn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.shahabderhami.com/personal-life/thanks-auburn/</guid><description>As 2017 is reaching its end, I would like to take a moment and dedicate my first post in my blog to thank two amazing mentors who helped me to…</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:01:33 GMT</pubDate><category>Personal life</category><category>#WarEagle</category><category>AuburnUniversity</category><category>PhDdefense</category></item></channel></rss>