Research and practice in operations management for a successful future

Operations Management deals with the planning, control and optimization of processes required for the production and distribution of products and services. At the Chair of Operations Management, we use innovative methods of mathematical optimization in particular to efficiently solve complex planning tasks in production and logistics. In our teaching as well as in research and practical projects, we combine current scientific findings with the real challenges of practice.

In an effort to help make better decisions, the "Center of Operations Research and Business Analytics" (CORBA) was founded together with researchers from other application-oriented chairs. We are happy to be a part of it.

Our Team

Team des Lehrstuhls für Operations Management

Welcome to the Chair of Operations Management. Discover more about us and our team.

News

Prof. Neufeld was invited by Shanghai University

In early September, Janis Neufeld was invited by Prof. Qan-Ke Pan (Shanghai University) and Prof. Xuan He (Shanghai Maritime University) to visit Shanghai. Prof. Pan is recognized as a leading scholar in the field of scheduling of production systems. During the multi-day stay, Janis Neufeld conducted a doctoral course together with our long-time research collaborator Prof. Jatinder ND Gupta (University of Huntsville, Alabama). The course focused on best practices for high-quality research in Operations Research and on strategies for successful publication.

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New publications in OR Proceedings

Neue Publikation in OR Proceedings

We are pleased to announce a new high-ranking publication with the participation of Janis Neufeld as a book chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2023!

Beitrag:

Order acceptance and scheduling in capacitated job shops

Linß, Florian; Hewitt, Mike; Neufeld, Janis S.; Buscher, Udo; In: Operations Research Proceedings 2023 , 1st ed. 2025. - Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland ; Voigt, Guido, S. 341-347

Abstract:

We consider a capacitated job shop problem with order acceptance. T…

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New publications in EJOR

New publication in European Journal of Operational Research

We are pleased to announce a new high-ranking publication with the participation of Janis Neufeld in the European Journal of Operational Research! In our study entitled Minimizing Makespan and Total Tardiness for the Flowshop Group Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Times, we investigate the interactions between the two objectives of minimizing tardiness and makespan in a scheduling problem and part families.

Publication:

Xuan He, Quan-Ke Pan, Liang Gao, J.S. Neufeld, J.N.D. Gupta (2025) Minimising Makespan and Total Tardiness for the F…

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Three new publications of the chair

Three new publications of the chair

We are pleased about three new publications that have recently appeared with the participation of our chair!

In collaboration with Tristan Becker and Udo Buscher (both TU Dresden), the article “The distributed flow store scheduling problem with inter-factory transportation” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.10.026) was published in the renowned European Journa…

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Studies & Teaching

The courses provide students with a deep understanding of practical planning problems in production and logistics as well as research-related insights into suitable solution methods. About the course:

Research & Cooperations

With our modules, the students gain in-depth insights into practical planning problems from production and logistics as well as research-related insights into suitable solution methods.