Theses, Project Studies & IDPs
We welcome students to engage in state-of-the-art research projects.
For this, we supervise Bachelor and Master theses, Project Studies, and Interdisciplinary Projects (IDPs). Below you can find a list of offered topics. You can also suggest a topic of your own (areas can include but are not limited to: transportation logistics, inventory management, warehouse management, retail, supply chain management, procurement and sourcing, lot sizing or production systems).
Please consider the information below regarding the application process.
Note that since we have a high load of ongoing theses, among future applications we will favor students who have already conducted their project study at our chair.
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Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Inventory Management
- Policy Mining in Multi-Product Inventory Management Using Machine Learning (advisor: Patrick Helm)
- Tackling the ASML Production-Inventory Challenge using Deep Reinforcement Learning (advisor: Patrick Helm)
- The Impact of Demand Variability on Rolling-Horizon Planning in the Stochastic Economic Lot Scheduling Problem (advisor: Patrick Helm)
Digital Logistics and Transportation Optimization
Data Science, Optimization and Reinforcement Learning in Logistics
- Machine Learning for Efficient Quality Testing: Reducing Effort with Sample-Based Control (advisor: Nicolas Kuttruff)
- Demand Autocorrelation Inventory Management: An Investigation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning (advisor: Patrick Helm)
- Reinforcement Learning for Assortment Decisions (advisor: Till Krieger, Patrick Helm)
- Using Reinforcement Learning to Explore Uncertainty in Last-Mile Delivery Scenarios (advisor: Christoph Kerscher)
- Unlocking Circularity: A Cross-Industry Study on Sustainable Transformation with H&Z Consulting (advisor: Alexander Bloemer)
- AI enabled knowledge sharing within manufacturing supply-chains (advisor: tbd)
- Application of Large Language Models in Operations Management (advisor: Mahsa Nakhost)
- Automation of Ordering Decisions in C-Parts Wholesale (advisor: Mahsa Nakhost)
- Digital Service Transformation for Dealers and OEMs (advisor: tbd)
- Sustainable Logistics Algorithms (OLA) in the End-2-End Agriculture Supply Chain (advisor: tbd)
- Tackling the ASML Production-Inventory Challenge using Deep Reinforcement Learning (advisor: Patrick Helm)
- Tackling the ASML Production-Inventory Challenge using Deep Reinforcement Learning (advisor: Patrick Helm)
- Automation of Ordering Decisions in C-Parts Wholesale (advisor: Mahsa Nakhost)
- Evaluation of Demand Fulfillment Policies with Offline Reinforcement Learning (advisor: Yihua Wang)
- Sustainable Logistics Algorithms (OLA) in the End-2-End Agriculture Supply Chain (advisor: tbd)
Application
If you are interested in doing your Bachelor (Master)’s Thesis at our group, then please send an e-mail (in English) to logtheses.log(at)mgt.tum.de with the following information:
- CV
- Current Transcript of records
- Topic of Interest & Preferred starting time
- Application form (only for Master thesis applications)
Do you like to suggest a topic of your own? Please also include:
- Description of the topic
If you do not find a particular topic to apply to, please contact us for a list of further topics with application documents, specifying the field of research you are interested in: Mobility, transportation logistics, inventory management, warehouse management, retail, supply chain management, procurement and sourcing, lot sizing or production systems.
Please note: Since we have a high load of ongoing theses, among future applications we will favor those students who have passed more courses at our chair.
How to prepare a scientific manuscript?
Seminar papers as well as bachelor/master's thesis and project studies vary in length and depth. However, they share same requirements and standards with regard to format and style. We therefore summarized good practice for you in our:
Latex template (You can also copy the Overleaf project from this link to your own project board)
How to submit your Thesis or Project Study?
Hard copy submission:
- Bind your thesis using adhesive binding (Klebebindung). PLEASE refrain from spiral binding (Ringbindung).
- Print your name and title at the binding spine.
- Submit TWO hard copies of your Bachelor/Master thesis and Project Study to the responsible supervisor.
- Please also consider the information given in Guidelines and writing tips
Electronic submission:
- Collect all relevant data, model and the thesis as PDF in a ZIP folder and upload it to the Moodle module, your supervisor assigns you to.
- (Thesis submission only) On the day of the submission deadline, you must send the thesis to grademanagement(at)mgt.tum.de by 23:59 pm at the latest. Of course, you are allowed to submit the thesis before the deadline. If the submission date falls on a public holiday or a weekend, you may submit the thesis on the next working day. The following documents should be added to the submission:
- Signature to the page Declaration of Authorship.
- Filled form Permission to View My Final Thesis.
- The subject of the email should be Thesis Submission Name/Matriculation Number: xxxxxx. You may choose the file names for the thesis and all the other documents.