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Food waste

My research focuses on finding win-win propositions, i.e., ways to reduce food waste in supply chains while preserving, sometimes even increasing profits for retailers and manufacturers.

Assortment planning

Assortment planning is the selection of products in a given product category in order to maximize profits. Related questions include pricing, inventory management, bundling decisions and inventory availability information.  

Green transportation

In my work on green vehicle routing, the objective function is to minimize cost which includes a penalty for greenhouse gases emissions while satisfying constraints on deliver schedules.


Papers on food waste minimization

Roughly one third of the food produced that is intended for human consumption every year- around 1.3 billion tons and valued at USD$1 trillion- is wasted or lost.

Earth.com

Do You Lose When You Sell Loose? Impact of
Unpackaged Sales on Profit and Waste

Kirci, Honhon and Muharremoglu
Working paper

Papers on assortment planning

Assortment planning is the selection of products in a given product category.

Ulu, Honhon & Alptekinoglu
Operations Res 2012