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Supply Chain Management

We study and design resilient, sustainable, and digital supply chains in an increasingly complex and volatile environment. Our work focuses on integrated production, logistics, and innovation systems that reconcile ecological, economic, and social objectives. We combine analytical models, data-driven methods, and simulation-based approaches with real-world case studies and pilot projects. In doing so, we address risk, regulation, and governance as well as technological and organizational innovation. A particular emphasis is placed on cooperative, circular, and platform-based business models. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital twins, and Industrial Data Spaces are systematically integrated into planning, control, and decision-making processes. At the same time, we place people and trustworthy, legally compliant AI at the center of hybrid intelligence systems. Through close collaboration with industry, public stakeholders, and international partners, we develop future-oriented solutions for global supply chains.

Risk and Sustainability Management in Global Production Networks

Risk and Sustainability Management in Global Production Networks

• Design and risk management of global and circular value creation networks, including operations in and with developing countries, and encompassing the bill of process
• Frugal engineering and co-creation
• Risk management and governance of technical innovation development processes
• Sustainability regulation and sustainability reporting
• Case studies, network and scenario design, risk simulations, novel approaches to supplier evaluation, and collaborative risk management
• ESG data modeling, circular economy pilot projects, KPI frameworks, and sustainability reporting

Digital, Cooperative, and Circular Transport and Logistics Systems

Digital, Cooperative, and Circular Transport and Logistics Systems

• Lean, intermodal transport networks
• Urban logistics
• Innovative logistics collaborations
• Ecosystem and platform concepts, business models, modeling and simulation studies
• Simulation of production and distribution networks, novel planning and control approaches, and scenario management
• Collaboration pilots, ecosystem and platform concepts, business models, as well as modeling and simulation studies

New Technologies and Business Models in Value Creation Networks

New Technologies and Business Models in Value Creation Networks

• Artificial intelligence, digital twins, platforms, metaverse, and Industrial Data Spaces in the supply chain
• Data and IT management in logistics
• AI and big data methods for production, logistics, and supply chains
• AI regulation and AI reporting
• Training programs, strategy and vision development, roadmaps, and business model and ecosystem workshops

Supply Chain and Production Planning and Control 4.0

Supply Chain and Production Planning and Control 4.0

• Methods and systems for intelligent planning and control in production, logistics, and supply chain management
• Data analytics, mathematical modeling, and simulation for system optimization
• The human factor in digital value creation, planning and control, and digital assistance systems
• Human-centered and legally compliant AI applications in the design of hybrid intelligence systems, trust-building and participation formats
• Design of hybrid intelligence systems, trust-building and participation formats, compliance gap analyses, workshops, and simulations
• Interoperability, data flow mapping, IT architecture reviews, Industrial Data Spaces, maturity models, and benchmarking

Selected Clients and Partners in Education and Research

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