Practice
Cooperation with companies is an important instrument for the chair to transfer research results into practice and to raise new research questions. Together with the practice partners, we develop innovative, methodologically sound and sustainable solutions from the fields of "Production Management", "Supply Chain Management" and "Resource Management".
Our work areas in detail:
Production Management
› Master planning
› Capacity planning
› Lot sizing
› Scheduling
› Process optimization
Supply Chain Management
› Strategic network design
› Layout planning
› Location planning
› Distribution planning
› Transportation planning
› Inventory planning
Resource Management
› Circular economy systems
› Reverse logistics
› Urban mining
Practice projects
The chair works on projects with industry funding and other funded projects. The following projects are a selection of projects carried out at the PSCM Chair and the Resource Lab:
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Optimization of volume allocation to suppliers in a multi-level production network
Automotive supply (OEM)
11/2018 – 01/2019
Objective: Cost minimization
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Conducting a simulation study to optimize material flow and develop production control mechanisms of a final assembly line
Automotive supply (OEM)
03/2017 – 12/2017
Objective: Maximization of output quantity
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Elaboration of a technology roadmap and estimation of the development of global CO2 emission prices
Steel industry
08/2014 – 01/2016
Objective: Decision support for strategic location planning
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Restructuring of the value network – Location and capacity planning
Chemical industry
02/2014 – 09/2014
Objective: Location and capacity planning taking into account multi-stage production processes at distributed locations
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Conception of a management cockpit to improve inventory management
Chemical industry
02/2011 – 09/2011
Objective: Decision support for the allocation of customer orders
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Conception and implementation of a planning tool for medium-term production program planning and customer order planning
Aerospace industry
10/2008 – 04/2009
Objective: Leveling of resource utilization and improvement of customer order lead time
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Analysis of the potential of optimized campaign planning
Chemical industry
05/2008 – 08/2008
Objective: Optimization of inventories under consideration of sequence-dependent setup times
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Conception and implementation of a decision support system for the sequence planning of a final assembly line
Aerospace industry
11/2006 – 04/2008
Objective: Reduction of lead times (WIP inventories) and increase of delivery reliability