PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The collaboration deals with strategic, tactical and operational questions that come up in logistics, supply chain management and manufacturing in the automotive industry. The following overview lists a selection of finished and ongoing projects within the collaboration:

 

• Strategic supply network planning 
  • Development of static, dynamic and stochastic network optimization tools
  • Study of influencing factors on truck transportation across Europe
  • Tax and duty optimized supply chains
  • Network design for prototyping
• Product variety management in the automotive industry
  • The impact of product variety on automobile assembly operations
  • A System Dynamics approach for measuring the impact of product variety on international supply chain networks
  • The dynamic effects of limiting the number of product specifications within a product family on actual variety
  • Modeling product variety in a MTS-MTO hybrid environment
  • Product variety management from a marketing perspective 
  • Variety costing
  • Signal quality and re-sequencing
• Future factory
  • Assembly line efficiency
  • The use of RFID in an automotive supply chain
  • Optimized re-sequencing in the automotive industry
  • Behavioral issues in line sequencing: The impact of feedback in manufacturing
  • Bucket brigades in assembly systems
  • Level scheduling - A comparison of the performance of models using different algorithms 
  • Comparing kitting with line stocking in manufacturing lines with low/high variability
  • Chaining concepts
• Transportation optimization
  • IR and frequency problem for a JIS plant based on milk runs
  • Cost minimization in inbound logistics networks
  • Development of a decision support tool for truck loading and delivery concepts
• Purchasing
  • Optimized gas procurement under price risk
  • Supplier relationship management in innovation purchasing - Insights from principal agent theory
  • Screening and evaluation of innovations in Innovation Purchasing

 

Student Opportunities: Immerse into the Realities of Projects in the Automotives

LOG-SCM addresses relevant management challenges and prepares through a rigorous study program. ››› more

With the establishment of the strategic partnership with Faurecia, we enhance the scope and caliber of project opportunities with a focus on the automotive industry.

Learning at LOG-SCM is not confined to the classroom and not limited to 'theoretically-driven' case studies. By engaging students in coping with real-world business problems that are faced by a today's leading multi-national company in an extensively competitive market environment, we facilitate value-driven problem solving by linking theory and practice.
The newly founded partnership offers students a competitive study advantage - enabling you to progress the way the world does business around you.
We hope the opportunity is poised to attract you - as you 'raise the bar' for your personal education.

Interested in immersing into the realities of manufacturing & logistics project work?

Interested in Project Studies, Bachelor or Master thesis in the automotives?

We invite you to join.

Have a look at currently advertised Bachelor Theses, Master Theses and Project Studies or feel free to contact the ›››team.