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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.
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Job offer: Student Assistant (m/f/d)
We are looking for a Bachelor/Master student (m/f/d) to support the Chair of Production Management of the Business School for 24 hours/month from December 1st, 2025 . The chair’s research focuses on the development of methods in Business Analytics, specifically in the field of performance analysis ...
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Guest Lecture by Johannes Diefenbach from Accenture
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Johannes Diefenbach will give a guest lecture on October 23rd. Dr. Diefenbach is a manager at Accenture who has led numerous analytics projects with a focus of applying methods from Operations Research. The talk with the title „Real-world challenges and approaches ...
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.
Guest Lecture by Dr. Gregor Selinka from BASF-SE
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Gregor Selinka, Senior Specialist Digitalization from BASF-SE, SC Planning & Visibility – S&OP & Supply Planning will give a guest lecture on October 15th.  The talk with the title „Planning at BASF: Selection and Implementation of Planning Software at BASF ...
Tim Jendrian Selected as Recipient for the 2025 Ken Wang Scholars Program
For his master thesis „Strategic Optimization of Airline Crew Scheduling: A Data-Driven Approach to Balancing Cost and Fatigue Management“, completed at the Chair of Service Operations Management, our student Tim Jendrian has been selected as recipient for the 2025 Ken Wang Scholars Program and ...