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PhD Position in Strategic Semiconductor Management with Volkswagen
We are pleased to announce a new doctoral opportunity in collaboration with our partner and sponsor Volkswagen. The position focuses on Strategic Semiconductor Management, a domain of growing strategic importance given the increasing semiconductor intensity of modern mobility technologies. The ...
Applied Seminar Procurement in Spring 2026: Topics are online!
Application is possible until November-22, 2025 (midnight).
Guest Speaker from Hilti: Tobias Wollinger Enriched Our Negotiations Course
Tobias Wollinger, Global Procurement Manager at Hilti, shared invaluable real-world insights on corporate negotiation strategies with our Master’s students in OPM 593 Negotiation.
Forum Procurement: Risk and Digital Trans­formation
Last week, we launched the first edition of „Forum Procurement,“ a two-day executive education format dedicated to research-practice exchange on current procurement topics.
SAP Business Processes Open Lecture 2025/26
Join the SAP Business Processes Open Lecture 2025/26, a global online course on business process innovation with SAP University Alliances and SOA People, free for eligible students.
New PhD student and research collaboration with Volkswagen
We are pleased to welcome Everardo Castolo Oviedo as a doctoral researcher at the Endowed Chair of Procurement.
Universität Mannheim startet zwei neue BWL-Master­programme im Herbst 2026
Die Master­studien­gänge Finance, Accounting & Taxation sowie Operations & Supply Chain Management erweitern das Portfolio der Mannheimer Betriebs­wirtschafts­lehre.
Fall 2025 – Semester planning Procurement
Important information for the courses offered by the Endowed Chair of Procurement in Fall 2025
AOM Annual Meeting 2025
Christoph Bode, Ruth Schültken, Myrna Hantke, and Tobias Fechner presented research papers in Copenhagen.
Ruth Schültken Awarded Runner-Up in the 2025 Best B2B Marketing Management Ph.D. Prize Competition
Dr. Ruth Schültken has been named runner-up in the 2025 Best B2B Marketing Management Ph.D. Prize Competition for her dissertation on misalignments in supply management.