Chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Moritz Fleischmann is Professor and holds the Chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of Mannheim. From 2011–2019, he was also the Academic Director of the ESSEC-Mannheim Modular Executive MBA Program at the Mannheim Business School. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. He was also a visitor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and at INSEAD.

Professor Fleischmann holds a Master's degree in Business Mathematics from the University of Ulm, Germany and a PhD in General Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Professor Fleischmann has been teaching extensively in the fields of operations management, logistics, supply chain management, and management science in BSc, MSc, MBA, and PhD programs. His research interests encompass various topics in the field of logistics and supply chain management. Current focal points include the operations/marketing interface, coordination of revenue management and operations, multi-channel distribution, in particular e-fulfillment, and closed-loop and sustainable supply chains. In these fields, he has been working with corporations such as IBM, Heineken, and Albert Heijn. His work has been published in leading international academic journals, including Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, and MIT Sloan Management Review.