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Logistik Masters is Germany‘s biggest science competition for logistics students. Each year, more than one thousand students from over 160 universities of the German-speaking countries participate in the competition, which is initiated by the VerkehrsRundschau and Dachser. Since 2005, about 10,000…

In the Handelsblatt Business Ranking of 2014, Prof. Minner is listed on position 11 out of more than 2,000 researchers in this area. Compared to the 2012 ranking, this means an improvement by 5 positions.For more details on the ranking, click here.

Anna-Lena Sachs, former research assistant at the Chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, won the “Promotionspreis des Bund der Freunde der TU München e.V”. In her dissertation on “Integrated Forecasting and Inventory Management for Perishable Products in Retailing”, she developed a…

Pierre Weishaupt, who wrote a Bachelor Thesis on the topic "Inventory Routing and Frequency Problem for a Just-In-Sequence Plant Based on Milk-Run Principle" at our chair, was awarded the BVL Bachelor Thesis Award 2014. This award honors outstanding work with practical relevance. As part of the…

Dr. Marcel Sieke of BARKAWI gave a presentation on Service Parts Management in the lecture Inventory Management. He started his presentation with structuring the relevant parts in Supply Chain Management: Sourcing, Manufacturing, Distribution and Service. When focusing more on Service Parts he split…

Dr. Steffen Klosterhalfen of BASF gave a presentation on Scientific Computing at BASF in the lecture Inventory Management. Already in the introduction where he presented some key figures and typical products of the BASF company, he showed the focus on Inventory and Supply Chain Management…

Oliver Reisch of flexis AG held a presentation on Global Supply Chain Challenges in the Automotive Sector in the lecture Inventory Management. He motivated the need for global and integrated planning approaches by the change from local to global sourcing, the significantly increasing variability of…