Successful Review meeting with the PRACTICE project team at Brussels

For two years the Chair of Logistics is one of 18 partners in the very successful EU-funded PRACTICE project. On December 15 representatives from all partners met in Brussels to present the latest progress in the project to four expert reviewers from the EU-commission. The overall feedback from the reviewer board was that the project is going well and has made significant progress since the last review. For the Chair of Logistics (as well as the other partners) this means that funding for the final year of the project is granted.

The role of the work package we are contributing to is to provide industrial use-cases for the secure cloud-computing infrastructure other PRACTICE partners are developing. Therefore, we (the team from Würzburg) carved out supply chain collaboration models that allow improved planning by using sensitive information from collaborating supply chain parties. Based on these models, our partners from SAP just started with the implementation of a prototype that will enable collaborative forecasting while keeping the sensitive individual data from each party private.

At this two-day event in Belgium, the Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods was represented by Fabian Taigel. Representatives from all project members met the day before the review meeting in Leuven to discuss and align the presentations. (University Leuven is also a project partner and has, by the way, a neat historic campus in a vivid city the size of Würzburg) Given the positive feedback from the reviewers the entire project team is now highly motivated to go into the final year where the focus will be for one thing on implementation and testing of our software prototype. For the other thing on the publication of additional scientific papers on the insights and models we gained so far.