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The grades for OPM 692 have been finalized and are now available in the student portal.

Last year, Katharina Viethen submitted her master's thesis entitled “Sustainability in Air Cargo Supply Chains” at our Chair. In her thesis, she investigated how environmental and social sustainability aspects can be systematically integrated into the design of air cargo networks. To address this ...

The Chair of Production Management participated in the 15th Conference on Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Operations (SMMSO) in Edesheim, Germany

The Chair of Production Management participated in the StochMod 2026, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Recent work from the Chair of Service Operations Management accepted for presentation

The Chair of Production Management participated in the 4th European Conference on Queueing Theory, Reykjavík, Iceland.

On 13 May 2026, two consultants from the global management consultancy Argon & Co joined our master-level course OPM 692 Strategic Sourcing for a guest lecture on competitive market negotiations and mechanism design. Daniel Sadrinna and Jan Budd – both University of Mannheim alumni and members of ...

At the 2026 Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) in Reno, NV, Ruth Schültken presented a research paper titled “Framing Sustainability Misconduct: How Social and Environmental Framing Influences Consumers' and Professional Buyers' Buying,” co-authored by ...

We welcome Christopher Schwarz as a new external doctoral candidate researching supply chain trans­formation and technology adoption.

Another successful year for our industry-integrated teaching format