Recently, Professor Susana Relvas from Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon visited us at TUM Campus Straubing and gave a guest lecture in our Bachelor and Master program “Sustainable Management and Technology”.
The chair of Supply and Value Chain Management is offering a number of electives for Bachelor as well as Master students in this years’ summer term.
The chair of Supply and Value Chain Management is organizing a digital workshop on food supply chain management on Friday, April-22 10am – 2pm. After the workshop, the companies will offer some career service and will explain job opportunities.
Creating good course timetables at a university is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem that has received considerable interest in the optimization and operations research literature (cf. [1]). In principle, the tasks consists of assigning weekly lectures to time slots and rooms while respecting a number of hard constraints. For instance, a lecturer can teach at most one lecture at a time, no two lectures can take place in the same room at the same time and no two lectures of the same curriculum must be scheduled in parallel.
In recent years, the retail food industry’s handling of excess inventory has increasingly come into the spotlight of society, activists, and politics. The economic pressure of unsold products, the environmental impact of wasted resources, and the ethical questions arising from discarding edible food are an ongoing dilemma for grocery retailers, who constantly face a trade-off between increasing attractiveness via high availability on the one hand, and the environmental, social, and financial impacts of overstocks on the other. One common practice in dealing with overstock is mainly being reactive to mitigate the impact, using initiatives such as price promotions or donations.