Presentation at INFORMS Annual Meeting

The INFORMS Annual Meeting is the world’s largest operations research and management science conference, with approximately 5.000 presentations on four days and even more participants. This year’s meeting took place in the famous Convention Center in Philadelphia. The Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods contributed two presentations: Julian Kurz, second year PhD student, presented his working paper where he uses a queueing approach taking into account future job arrivals to minimize capacity and queue length-related holding costs for an aircraft engine MRO service provider. His work is part of the EU project PRACTICE (Link). Alexander Rothkopf, postdoc at the chair, presented his work regarding multi-supplier sourcing strategies for global health products. Both presentations were well received by the audience and ideas for further research and potential collaborations with other international institutes emerged from the ensuing discussions.