1st Fashion Operations Conference
Schedule
Thursday, March 26
| Welcome | |
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| 09:15 – 09:30 | Victor Martínez de Albéniz, IESE Business School |
| Session I: New Models for Assortment Planning | |
| 09:30 - 10:15 | Aydin Alpketinoglu, Pennsylvania State University
- The Exponomial Choice Model: A New Alternative for Assortment and Price Optimization |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Sumit Kunnumkal, Indian School of Business
- Tractable Models and Algorithms for Assortment Planning with Product Costs |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break (3rd Floor, Q Building) |
| Session II: Discovering Customer Preferences | |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Gustavo Vulcano, NYU Stern School of Business
- A market discovery algorithm to estimate a general class of non-parametric choice model |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Dorothée Honhon, University of Texas at Dallas
- Hiding Availability Information to Seek Customer Preferences: The Case of E-tailers |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch (North Campus Cafeteria) |
| Session III: Logistics | |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Gürhan Kök, Koç University
- Size and Prepack Optimization to Minimize Lost Sales and Logistics Costs at a Fashion Retailer |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Santiago Gallino, Tuck School of Business
- The Value of Rapid Delivery in Online Retailing |
| 17:00 – 20:00 | Desigual Visit (Bus leaves IESE North Campus at 16:30) |
| 20:00 – 22:00 | Dinner TBD in Barceloneta (walk from Desigual offices) |
Friday, March 27
| Session IV: Pricing | |
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| 09:30 – 10:15 | Felipe Caro, UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Adoption of a Markdown Decision Support System at Zara |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | David Simchi-Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Applying Machine Learning in Online Revenue Management |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break (3rd Floor, Q Building) |
| Session V: Channel Management | |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Antonio Moreno, Kellogg School of Management
Inventory Showrooms and Customer Migration in Omni-Channel Retail |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Victor Martínez de Albéniz, IESE Business School
- Estimating and Optimizing the Impact of Inventory on Consumer Choices in Fashion Retail |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch (North Campus Cafeteria) |
| Session VI: Industry panel on E-commerce | |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Victor del Pozo, Privalia |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Florian Jansen, Lamoda.ru |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Open discussion |
| Concluding Remarks | |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Victor Martínez de Albéniz, IESE Business School |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Barcelona Walking Tour and Tapas |