Banu Yetkin Yetkin EkrenSachin Kumar Kumar ManglaEcem Eroğlu TurhanlarYigit KazancogluGuo LiTurhanlar, Ecem ErogluLi, GuoMangla, Sachin KumarKazancoglu, YigitEkren, Banu Yetkin2025-10-062021030505480305-05481873-765X10.1016/j.cor.2021.1052372-s2.0-85101343397https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85101343397&doi=10.1016%2Fj.cor.2021.105237&partnerID=40&md5=9eecb3120c4a984231643d923ff6551ahttps://gcris.yasar.edu.tr/handle/123456789/8970https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105237This research investigates lateral inventory share-based business models for e-grocery networks where online groceries are inter-connected in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment. Recently managing food supplies has become a very important issue due to the onset of unexpected conditions such as natural disasters (earthquakes tsunamis floods droughts etc.) and pandemics. In this paper we aim to design sustainable food supply chain networks for e-commerce food companies (e.g. e-groceries) by applying lateral inventory share policies after the consideration of the existence of strategic alliances between organizations. We aim to minimize food waste as well as back orders resulting in more sustainable networks. Further we explore how a business-to-business (B2B) policy (i.e. lateral-inventory share policy) should be designed to optimize business (i.e. e-groceries) profitability. We optimize the re-order and up-to (sS) inventory levels of e-groceries for the pre-defined sharing policies by using a simulation optimization approach. The optimal results show that having a lateral inventory share poliIndiacy in food networks is more efficient compared to a non-lateral policy. Also at the optimal points of the considered policies lateral inventory share ratio is usually observed to be larger than 50% on average meaning that more than half of customer orders are met by lateral inventory share. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Englishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessB2b, E-grocery, Food Waste, Industry 4.0, Lateral-inventory, Sustainable Food Supply Chain Network, Disasters, Electronic Commerce, Food Supply, Food Waste, Supply Chains, Business Models, Business To Business, Customer Orders, Internet Of Things (iot), Inventory Levels, Natural Disasters, Simulation Optimization, Strategic Alliance, Internet Of ThingsDisasters, Electronic commerce, Food supply, Food waste, Supply chains, Business models, Business to business, Customer orders, Internet of Things (IOT), Inventory levels, Natural disasters, Simulation optimization, Strategic alliance, Internet of thingsSustainable Food Supply Chain NetworkB2BE-groceryLateral-inventoryFood WasteIndustry 4.0Article