Doctoral students from all over the world participated in a contest where a challenging network design problem for a last-mile delivery system with uncertain demands and multiple decision criteria was to be solved. In cooperation with Emanuel Herrmann, Santiago Nieto-Isaza won this data-driven… [weiterlesen]

Annually, the BVL (Bundesvereinigung Logistik e.V.) rewards young scientists for their outstanding theses. This year, Jan-Ferdinand Lühmann was awarded for his Master’s thesis “Logistics transactions 4.0 - How the digitization changes B2B sales in the logistics industry at the interface between… [weiterlesen]

Dr. Patricia Rogetzer, who was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management of Prof. Dr. Stefan Minner for the past two years (10/2018-09/2020), has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Twente (The Netherlands) in the Industrial Engineering… [weiterlesen]

The paper "A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands and Probabilistic Duration Constraints" by Dr. Alexandre Florio, O.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Richard F. Hartl, Prof. Dr. Stefan Minner, and Prof. Juan José Salazar González was accepted for publication in… [weiterlesen]

The paper “Data-Driven Optimization for Commodity Procurement Under Price Uncertainty,” by Dr. Christian Mandl and Prof. Dr. Stefan Minner was accepted for publication in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. The full article can be found here. [weiterlesen]

Dr. Christian Mandl received the German Operations Research Society (GOR) dissertation award 2020. The prize is awarded annually for outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research (OR).  The dissertation entitled "Optimal Procurement and Inventory Control in Volatile Commodity… [weiterlesen]