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Two of our researchers – Jan Meller and Fabian Taigel – co-founded Level3, a company dedicated to applying AI in Operations & Logistics Management. With their third co-founder, Dr. Sarah Mehringer, the team secured an EXIST Business Start-up Grant from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

Every day, medicines are sent around the world. Strict guidelines must be followed during transport. The Würzburg-based company va-Q-tec has specialised in this area and is now working with students and researchers of the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Method and the Chair of Information Systems and Management.

Researchers at the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods were able to place three new research contributions in leading international journals.

Fabian Taigel, PhD student at the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods, visited the London Business School from April to July 2018.

Richard Pibernik was invited as a visiting faculty to the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI).

Benedikt Schulte, former researcher at the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods, received the 2018 Science Award of the Association for Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Logistics (BME) for his thesis “Integrated Segmentation of Supply and Demand with Service Differentiation”.

In a joint project with Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services GmbH, the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods is developing innovative methods for predicting and planning capacity requirements.

The Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods collaborates with Kenyan-based startup MaishaMeds and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) to develop innovative inventory management policies for Kenyan pharmacies.

A collaboration between University of Michigan and the Chair of Logistics provides new insights into optimal procurement strategies for essential medicines.

Alexander Rothkopf, postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods, is visiting the W.P. Carey School of Business at the Arizona State University from April to June 2017.

Together with our 19 partners from the EU-funded PRACTICE project we derrived potential solutions based on collaborative approaches in supply chains.

2016 emerges as a very successful year in terms of research output for the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods. Recently, five new research papers authored by the researchers of our team have been published or accepted for publication by leading international journals in Management Science, Operations Management and Operations Research.

Richard Pibernik was invited to give a keynote speech at the opening event of the Ningbo Supply Chain Innovation Institute (NSCIIC) in China.

Benedikt Schulte, researcher at the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods, received the 2016 doctoral dissertation award of the German Society for Operations Research (Gesellschaft für Operations Research - GOR) for his thesis “Integrated Segmentation of Supply and Demand with Service Differentiation”.