Institute of Production and Logistics

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The institute develops digital decision support systems that help organizations and supply chains deploy sustainable technologies and processes effectively, resiliently, and efficiently.

It conducts problem-oriented and application-oriented research According to the orientation of the university and the development plan of the department. The Institute's publications and research projects focus on the following areas:

•     Supply chain forestry-wood
•   Production management
•   Sustainable transport logistics
•   Humanitarian logistics
•   Food logistics
•   Construction logistics

As a cross-sectional function, we also deal with the management of crises and disasters in individual thematic areas.

Our methodological expertise covers the following areas:

•     Event and agent-based simulation and optimisation
•   Mathematical modelling of optimisation problems
•   Design and implementation of exact as well as (mat-, meta-)heuristic solution methods
•   System dynamics modelling
•   Process modelling