Operational Excellence in Logistics and Supply Chains

The HICL-Conference celebrates its 10th anniversary, indicating major interest in the research fields of supply chain management and logistics. They are dedicated to make recommendations for new approaches and solutions that enable companies to cope with current and future challenges in supply chains and logistics. The contributions of this third volume of the 2015 conference focus on innovative models to optimize logistics and supply chains at an operational level. They address process efficiency and data-related aspects as well as supply chain security insights.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Kersten is the director of the Institute of Business Logistics and General Management at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). He has more than 10 years' experience in industry as senior manager at Daimler AG, as a senior researcher at Technische Universität München (TUM). Prof. Kersten is vice-chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the AiF German Federation of Industrial Research Associations and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Logistics Association (BVL). His research interests include logistics and supply chain management, supply chain risk management, complexity management, and process optimization, undertaking various projects in these fields together with manufacturing industry and logistics service providers.