On October 21, former PhD student of our Chair, Dr. Christoph Kerscher, was recognized as one of four finalists for the Science Award of the Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL) at the Supply Chain CX. His thesis, "Complexity Reduction in Vehicle Routing – Data-Driven Algorithms for Emerging Last-Mile… [weiterlesen]

From 2 to 4 October 2026, the Sustainable SCM Thought Leader Workshop took place in Kochel am See. Following an initiative by Stefan Minner, our chair brought together researchers to discuss current trends in sustainable supply chain management. The program featured keynote speeches by Ming-Lang… [weiterlesen]

From 17 to 21 August 2026, members of our chair participated in the ISIR Conference in Budapest with three presentations: Patrick Helm presented “Hard Constraints, Smooth Gradients: Learning Feasible Policies in General Inventory Networks via Differentiable Projection,” Till Krieger presented… [weiterlesen]

The paper “Dispatch or Hold? An Inverse Optimization and Reinforcement Learning Approach for Multiobjective On-Demand Delivery” by Yihua Wang, Long He, Zhengling Qi, and Stefan Minner has been published in Transportation Science. The study develops an inverse optimization and reinforcement learning… [weiterlesen]

The INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Conference brought the TSL research community to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA. At the conference, Nicolas Kuttruff presented “Heterogeneous Fleet Routing under Environmental Budget Constraints”, co-authored with… [weiterlesen]

Tim Kröger received the GOR (Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V.) Bachelor’s Thesis Award for the summer semester 2026 for his thesis “User-Centric Evaluation of GPT-4o-Mini for Solving the Price-Setting Newsvendor Problem,” supervised by Dr. Mahsa Abbaszadeh Nakhost and Prof. Dr. Stefan… [weiterlesen]