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Hit or Miss: What Leads Experts to Take Advice for Long Term Judgments? is the title of a new publication by Philipp Ecken and Richard Pibernik that was accepted for publication by "Management Science" and recently published in the journal's "Article in Advance" Section.

Billigkleidung wird gebilligt - Warum haben Unternehmen, die dem Thema Nachhaltigkeit scheinbar wenig Beachtung schenken, trotzdem Erfolg? Das hat eine Würzburger Studentin am Beispiel von Billigkleidung untersucht. Sie blickt dabei auch kritisch auf Organisationen, die sich für Nachhaltigkeit einsetzen.

The Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods and the DAW SE group, a leading vendor of coating systems in Europe, have launched a joint research project. Its goal is to optimise the group's strategic production and logistics activities.

During the last two years Prof. Eirini Spiliotopoulou from VU Amsterdam and Dr. Alexander Rothkopf from Würzburg University conducted collaborative research on volume guarantees in donor funded global health markets. This collaboration will now be intensified: The Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods received a grant from Würzburg University dedicated to inviting international scholars to host Prof. Spiliotopoulou as a guest researcher in Würzburg.

Topic of Dissertation: “Integrated Segmentation of Supply and Demand with Service Differentiation”

Globally operating companies frequently face tough decisions with regard to supplying their key markets: Which quantities should they deliver to which countries and to individual customers? Researchers from the University of Würzburg are working on models to facilitate this difficult task.

The Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods has established a collaboration with Prof. Prashant Yadav and his team at the William Davidson Institute/University of Michigan in multiple projects on global health.

In his doctoral thesis Alexander Rothkopf studied the beneficial and adverse consequences of procurement volume consolidation initiatives. He now received the Dissertation Award from the German Association of Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (BME) for his work. Rothkopf is postdoctoral fellow at the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods in Business Administration at the University of Wuerzburg.

In a new research initiative researchers at the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods investigate how global health procurers can improve the supply of essentials medicines to low income countries through innovative procurement mechanisms.

Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods is Part of new EU-funded Project PRACTICE (Privacy-Preserving Computation in the Cloud)