Specialization "Production and Logistic Management"

of the master 'Industrial Engineering and Management'


IEM production and logistics focuses right at the heart of the supply chain from raw material to delivering end products to customers. Modern production and logistics methods are growing ever more complex. Product lifetime decreases, suppliers and buyers are increasingly geographically spread over the world and more and more activities are outsourced. Important issues are supply chain design: where to put production facilities, distribution centres; what capacities do we need for resources in production, distribution centres; how to structure operations management: in production, warehousing, transport and distribution, purchasing; how to get the desired service levels to customers; how to ensure process reliability, how does that interact with maintenance planning.

In the Production and Logistic Management specialization the issue is to understand the impact of logistic designs to order on the overall performance. In our Business Process Laboratory, students gain skills in using advanced software tools for enterprise resource planning, simulation, applying integer linear programming problems, capacity analysis of production systems and distribution planning and vehicle routing.