We focus on quantitative methods in support of decision-making in both research and teaching in the areas of operations, logistics, and supply chain management. In addition, we focus on a wide range of topics that include sustainable location and routing problems, decision support in regard to disaster relief, developing multi-objective optimization methods, as wel as planning and controlling automated guided vehicles.
Our homepage contains information about our academic degree program, Master's degree theses, current research projects, and events.
The endowed chair "Sustainable Transportation Logistics 4.0" (ITS) has also been part of the Institute of Production and Logistics Management (PLM) since October 2018. Detailed information about the chair is available at: jku.at/its, opens an external URL in a new window
Institute of Production- and Logistics Management
Address
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
4040 Linz
Location
Managementzentrum, 4th floor, Trakt B, Room 406 B
Office Hours (Secretary)
Mon-Wed: 8:30 - 11:30 AM and 1:00 - 3:30 PM
Thurs: 1:00 - 3:30 PMr
Fri: 8:30 - 11:30 AM
Telephone
+43 732 2468 5501
The PLM Secretary will be closed from Thursday, 08.12. until
Monday, 12.12.2022 inclusive.
Urgent requests should be directed to the staff in present!
This week, the students of the JKU Business School received again valuable insights into global supply chain management at Aldi/Hofer as part of the "Operations and Supply Chain Management" lecture.
On September 27, 2022, the Günther Zäpfel Master’s Thesis Prizes were awarded for the first time.
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The German Society for Operations Research (GOR) has awarded Elisabeth Gaar with the GOR Young Researchers Award. This prize is awarded for outstanding young researchers in the field of Operations Research whose excellence is demonstrated among others by a publication in OR Spectrum or Mathematical Methods of Operations Research.
Elisabeth Gaar has published the article "An SDP-based approach for computing the stability number of a graph" together with Melanie Siebenofer and Angelika Wiegele from the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt in Mathematical Methods of Operations Research in 2022. She works at the Institute of Production and Logistics Management at the Johannes Kepler University Linz for two years now. The award was given to her at the conference OR 2022 in Karlsruhe on September 7, 2022. Elisabeth Gaar has already won the ÖGOR Dissertationspreis 2018 and the ÖGOR Diplomarbeitspreis 2015, which are the awards of the Austrian OR-society for the best dissertation and master thesis in the field of OR, respectively.
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
4040 Linz, Austria
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