The Retail Logistics & Innovation Lab
The mission of the Lab is to implement cutting-edge research in the field of logistics management and innovation developments in the retail industry. This is enabled by a close collaboration of Technical University of Darmstadt with REWE Logistik as the logistics arm of the REWE Group Germany. Further institutions involved are Politecnico di Milano (School of Management) and the University of Göttingen (Chair for Marketing and Innovation Systems). Further partners are involved on an evolving basis and also further industry partners are invited to joint Lab activities.
Started in 2022, successful impacts can be stated such as for example publications like JBL 2025, POM 2024, CAIE 2024, IJPR 2024 or EJOR 2024, the 2023 BVL Award for the best ISSL presentation and a 2023 best student paper award finalist nomination at the Annual Meeting 2023 of the Academy of Management Boston.
The Lab team invites all researchers and retail experts to participate in the innovation and development topics addressed by the lab work. Two workshops have been conducted in November 2022 (Göttingen) and July 2023 (Darmstadt) with national and international participants from academia and business practice, a further Retail Logistics Workshop is planned for 19 September 2025 in Milan (LM 25, Politecnico di Milano School of Management). Link LM 25
Lab Team
| Name | Contact | |
|---|---|---|
 | PD Dr. Matthias Klumpp Research Group Leader at Production and Supply Chain Management (TU Darmstadt) and Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano (TU Mailand) | |
 Picture: Christian Stumpf | Prof. Dr. Christoph Glock Professor at the Institute of Production and Supply Chain Management | |
 Picture: Maik Hammerschmidt | Prof. Dr. Maik Hammerschmidt Professor at the Chair of Marketing and Innovation Management University of Göttingen | |
 Picture: Katharina Berendes | Katharina Berendes M.Sc. Research Associate at the Chair of Marketing and Innovation Management University of Göttingen | |
 | Maria Keil M.Sc. Former Research Associate at the Institute of Production and Supply Chain Management | |
 | Lennart Kunze M.Sc. Research Associate at the Institute of Production and Supply Chain Management | |
 Picture: Dominik Loske | Dr. Dominic Loske Postdoc at the Institute of Production and Supply Chain Management | |
 | Alexander Lunin M.Eng. Research Associate at the Institute of Production and Supply Chain Management |
The Lab team is accompanied by dedicated REWE experts like Andreas Hillmann and Dr. Fabian Nevries.
Publications of the lab
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