Alexander Hübner is Full Professor of Business Administration at TUM where he holds the Chair of Supply and Value Chain Management at the TUM Campus Straubing. His research focuses on the design of sustainable supply chains. His work involves developing decision support tools for transportation, inventory management, capacity management and assortment planning with particular applications in retailing, consumer goods industries and health care systems.
Professor Hübner studied Business Administration at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt where he also completed his doctoral studies and Assistant Professor. He then moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he was an Associate Professor at the MIT’s Luxembourg Centre of Logistics. Before he moved to the TUM, he led the Institute of Supply Chain Management at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel. Furthermore, he worked as project manager for six years at McKinsey & Company. He is leading the EURO Working Group on Retail Operations. Further, he is a member of the advisory board of the German Logistics association (BVL).
- Since 06/2018
Full Professor for Supply and Value Chain Management at Technical University of Munich, Campus Straubing, Germany
- 2018
Full Professor at Institute of Supply Chain Management at European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
- 2017
Associate Professor for Supply Chain Management and Logistics at Luxembourg Centre of Logistics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston at University Luxembourg
- 2013–2017
Assistant Professor for Operations Management at Catholic University Eichstätt/Ingolstadt, positive mid-term evaluation (=habilitation) in June 2015
- 2016
Research at Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
- 2008–2010
Ph.D. at Catholic University, Eichstätt/Ingolstadt, Dr. rer. pol. Topic “Retail Category Management – Decision Support Systems for Assortment, Shelf Space and Price Planning”
- 2004
Studies at University of Economics, Prague
- 2002
Studies at Corvinus University, Budapest
- 2000–2005
Studies of Business Administration at Catholic University, Eichstätt/Ingolstadt, Diplom-Kaufmann
- 2005–2012
McKinsey & Company, Munich, Project manager
- 2005
Seidenschwarz & Company, Starnberg, Internship
- 2004
Audi AG, Ingolstadt, Student project
- 2003
BMW Group AG, Munich, Internship
- 2002
Scherdel GmbH, Marktredwitz, Internship
- 1994–1998
Didier-Werke AG, Marktredwitz, Production planner
