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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]

The paper "New Exact Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands" by Dr. Alexandre Florio, O.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Richard F. Hartl, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Minner was accepted for publication in Transportation Science. The full article can be found here. [weiterlesen]

The paper "Human solution strategies for the vehicle routing problem: Experimental findings and a choice-based theory" by Prof. Dr. Pirmin Fontaine, Dr. Florian Taube, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Minner was accepted for publication in the journal Computers & Operations Research. The full article can be… [weiterlesen]

The paper "Optimal a priori tour and restocking policy for the single-vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands" by Dr. Alexandre Florio, O.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Richard F. Hartl, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Minner was accepted for publication in the European Journal of Operational Research. The… [weiterlesen]

During the 13th Scientific Symposium of the Association for Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Logistics (Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik, BME) in Mannheim, our alumnus Dr. Christian Mandl was awarded with the BME-Wissenschaftspreis 2020 (Science Prize) for his… [weiterlesen]

Szymon Albinski, research associate at the chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title “Analytics for Shared Mobility and Transportation Systems – Advances in Methods and Insights”. In his dissertation, he worked on open questions in the… [weiterlesen]