Risk-Aware Decision-Focused Demand Forecasting for Multi-Channel Inventory Optimization under Promotion and Stock-Out Constraints
Retail replenishment couples a forecasting problem with a constrained stochastic allocation problem, yet forecasters are still trained to minimise statistical error rather than the cost of the decisions they induce. The mismatch is aggravated by three features of real multi-channel retailing: channels of one region dra...