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Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim

Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business

Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business

Business College Complex 632 Bogue St

East Lansing, MI 48824

United States

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“  My research focuses on understanding the economics of distribution services in digital and nondigital retail with applications in local package delivery, retail operations (particularly omni-channel retail), and food waste reduction.  ”

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Wal-Mart's Omni-Channel Synergy

Lim, S.F.W.T., Wang, L. and Srai, J.S. 2017. Wal-Mart’s omni-channel synergy. Supply Chain Management Review, September/October: 30-37.
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 Nov 2019
Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim, Lina Wang and Jagjit Singh Srai
Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business, Arizona State University (ASU), Students and University of Cambridge - Department of Engineering
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Wal-Mart; Omni-channel

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Channel Changes Choice: An Empirical Study about Omnichannel Demand Sensitivity to Fulfillment Lead Time

SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper 20-02
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 28 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2023
Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim, Fei Gao and Tom Tan
Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business, Indiana University Bloomington and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Information Technology and Operations Management Department (ITOM)
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omnichannel retailing, demand sensitivity to lead time, showrooms, online channel, catalog channel, facility network, empirical retail

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Service Oriented Considerate Routing: Data, Predictions and Robust Decisions

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 15 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2025
Yue Zhao, Zhixing Luo, Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim, Caihua Chen and Melvyn Sim
Peking University HSBC Business School, Nanjing University, Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN and National University of Singapore (NUS) - NUS Business School
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Service Oriented Routing, Courier Assigned Location Mismatch Metric, Courier Behavior, Robust Satisficing, Data-driven Optimization

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Estimating Stockout Costs and Optimal Stockout Rates: A Case on the Management of Ugly Produce Inventory

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 01 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2023
Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim, Elliot Rabinovich, Sanghak Lee and Sungho Park
Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business, Arizona State University - W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) - Marketing Department and Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business
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Online retail, grocery, choice analysis, MDCEV, compensating variation, stockout costs

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Scan Based Trading and Bargaining Equilibrium: A Structural Estimation of Supply Chain Profit

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2022
Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim, Timothy J. Richards, Elliot Rabinovich and Min Choi
Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business, Arizona State University W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University - W.P. Carey School of Business and California State University Fullerton
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Scan Based Trading, Nash-in-Nash Equilibrium, Bargaining Power, Vertical Relationships, Retailing, Bakery Goods

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How Retail System Complexity Drives Inventory Record Inaccuracy: Empirical Evidence from Cross-border E-commerce

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2025
Ting Wang, Kejia Hu, Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim, Yun Fong Lim and Yugang Yu
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business, Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
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Inventory record inaccuracy, system complexity, e-commerce, operational efficiency

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Research: Why So Many Packages Don’t Get Delivered

Harvard Business Review, 2023
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 11 Apr 2024
Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim
Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business
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Last-Mile Delivery; E-Commerce; Failed Deliveries; Urban Logistics, Smart Cities

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Data-Driven Bundling with Driver Preferences in Crowd-Sourced Logistics

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Nov 2025
Jiachen Wei, Xiaobo Li and Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim
Michigan State University - Eli Broad College of Business, National University of Singapore and Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business
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crowd-sourced logistics, bundling, data-driven optimization, mixed-integer exponential conic programming

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Revitalizing the In-Store Experience: An Empirical Study on the Spillover Effects of Experiential Services

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2025
Bengü Nur Özdemir and Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater - College of Business and Economics and Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business
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Experiential retail, grocery, synthetic difference-in-differences, synthetic control, empirical operations management

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The Fourth Channel: Automatic Home Replenishment and its Implications for Supply Chain Cost and Customer Convenience

Management and Business Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2024
Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim and David F. Pyke
Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business and School of Business Administration, University of San Diego
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Automatic Home Replenishment, Ecommerce, Retail Operations, Supply Chain Management

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Boxless Shipping: Balancing Sustainability and Security in Package Delivery

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Oct 2025
Neda Mirzaeian, Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim and Shouqiang Wang
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business and University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management
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E-commerce, Package theft, Last-mile delivery, Sustainability, Information design

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Shopping Activity at Warehouse Club Stores and Its Competitive and Network-Density Implications

Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Jun 2020
Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim, Elliot Rabinovich, Sungho Park and Minha Hwang
Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business, Arizona State University - W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business and McKinsey & Co. Inc.
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retail operations, warehouse club, industry study, quasi-experimental design, econometrics

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Configuring the Last-Mile in Businessto- Consumer E-Retailing

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2019/004, California Management Review, volume 61, issue 2, 2019[10.1177/0008125618805094]
Posted: 28 Apr 2025
Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim and Matthias Winkenbach
Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics

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Business-to-consumer, Competitive strategy, Electronic commerce, Logistics

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Cutting Last-Mile Delivery Costs: New Tactics can Boost Profitability and Satisfaction with Sub Services

Posted: 16 Dec 2024
Stanley Frederick W. T. Lim
Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business

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Last-mile delivery, Subscription services, E-commerce, Retail logistics, Artificial Intelligence