Chair

Chair profile

The major topics of our research, teaching, and transfer teams are the development, evaluation and communication of innovative techno-economic measures for design and control in maritime business, logistics, transport and distributed production. Moreover, quantitative and qualitative techno-economic evaluation procedures and decision support tools are being developed and applied in teaching, transfer and research projects in cooperation with business partners.

Selected topics are

• Sustainable supply chains and supply chain management
• Mesologistics in connection with site planning and development
• Value engineering and value chain management
• Port operations and hinterland connectivity
• Logistics hubs and freight villages
• Electromobility and cargo transportation
• Distributed production systems, international transport networks and value added services
• Innovative cluster structures and processes
• Coopetitive collaboration between business stakeholders
• Decentralized control of production and logistics systems
• Cloud logistics, smart transportation, Industry 4.0 and demand chain management