Research focus of the Institute of Production and Supply Chain Management

Our research focuses on the development of planning procedures to support decision problems in logistics. The problems we look at include the forecasting of material requirements, the planning of production and transport quantities, and the optimization of storage and retrieval processes in warehouses. By transferring our models into suitable software environments, our research results can directly be applied in practice. In addition to improving the efficiency of production and logistics activities, our research also aims to take social and ecological objectives into account. For example, we investigate how the design of logistics processes can improve workplace quality, or how the emission of pollutants can be reduced by adapting production processes. Our research results enable a more sustainable management of production and logistics.