Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics

Department of Business Administration




Chair of Production and Operations Management
(Lehrstuhl für Produktion und Logistik)
o. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Richard F. Hartl
Univ. Prof. Dr Karl Dörner

 040661 Smart Production and Supply Chain Management (MA) 

Seminar (E)
4 ECTS points

"Inventory routing problems"



Lecturer

Dates & Places

  • Tuesday 16:45-18:15 SE 1
  • Starting on October  03, 2017

Study Programs

  • MSc. internationale Betriebswirtschaft (KFK Production Management,  KFK SupplyChain Management, KFK Transportation Logistics) bis 30.11.2018
  • MSc. Betriebswirtschaft (KFK Production Management,  KFK Supply Chain Management, KFK Transportation Logistics) bis 30.11.2018
  • MSc.( Smart Production and Supply Chain Management)

Course Content

  • This course (Seminar) will focus on "."
  • Basic models and approaches from the literature will be discussed and some recent research articles will be presented. 

Requirements

  • Regular presence and participation in discussion
  • Literature study
  • Presentation using slides max 45 minutes (power Point or PDF)
  • Term paper (Seminararbeit)

Prerequisites

  • This course (Seminar) is intended as the final course in the Major. Thus, it should only be taken after some other courses in the corresponding area have been successfully completed.
  • Minimum requirement for admission is
    • "Transportation Logistics (TL)", "Production Analysis", or "Supply Chain Management" (current "Studienplan")

Basic Literature  

Campbell, A., Clarke, L., Kleywegt, A., & Savelsbergh, M. (1998). The inventory routing problem. In: Crainic T.G.,Laporte G.(eds) Fleet Management and Logistics (pp.95-113). Springer Boston,MA

Bertazzi, L., & Speranza, M. G. (2012). Inventory routing problems: an introduction. EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, 1(4), 307-326

Luca Bertazzi, Martin Savelsbergh, Maria Grazia Speranza (2008). Inventory Routing. In Bruce Golden, S. Raghavan, Edward Wasil (eds) The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges, pp. 49-72.

Schedule "Würfelteil"

  • The first part of the course is a so called "Würfelseminar", i.e. certain topics are to be prepared by all participants. Every 10 minutes, say, a different person will be asked (at random -> Würfel) to present the next pages of the underlying literature. The purpose is
        (i) to obtain some common knowledge base by all participants, and 
        (ii) to facilitate discussion.
  • Literature for the "Würfelseminar": see "Moodle"
Tentative schedule: 
  • October 3 , 2017: introductory session
  • October 10, 2017: basic literature - see above: 
    Campbell, A., Clarke, L., Kleywegt, A., & Savelsbergh, M. (1998),
    Chapters 1-4.
  • October 17,2017:  basic literature - see above: 
    Campbell, A., Clarke, L., Kleywegt, A., & Savelsbergh, M. (1998),
    beginning of Chapter 5 (not 5.1), chapter 6 up to and including 6.1 (not 6.2)
    and
    Bertazzi, L., & Speranza, M. G. (2012).
    pages 307-317.
  • October 24, 2017: basic literature -  see above: 
    Bertazzi, L., & Speranza, M. G. (2012).
    pages 307-317
    and
    Luca Bertazzi, Martin Savelsbergh, MariaGrazia Speranza (2008)
    Chapters 1 and 2 (same example as in Bertazzi, L., & Speranza, M. G., 2012, but extended).
  • October 31, 2017 : basic literature - tba

Schedule "Spezialteil"

In the second part each group of typically 2 participants will be given a special topic which has to be prepared and presented some weeks later (mainly in June). Also a term paper (Seminararbeit) must be written on this topic.

Presentation Terms
  • Decmeber 12, 2017 presentation
  • January 9, 2018 presentation
  • January 16 presentation
  • January 23, presentation
  • January 30, presentation

Term paper (Seminararbeit)



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