2019

Michael Wolf, a graduate of ETH’s MTEC Master program, wrote the award-receiving thesis at the Chair of Logistics Management in winter 2018/19. He investigated machine learning (ML) approaches in order to optimize conventional forecasting methodologies.

Dr. Maria Arputham Ramkumar– who was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Logistics Management for more than 2.5 years – takes up a tenured position as Assistant Professor in Operations and Quantitative Methods at the Indian Institute of Management Raipur, India.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner and his team hosted an inspiring evening at the ETH Dozentenfoyer in cooperation with CIPS-Switzerland. Approximately 70 leading Swiss procurement managers and three startups attended the “Supply Chain Startups: Reality Check”-event to discuss their experiences.

Bublu Thakur-Weigold from ETH Zurich’s HumOSCM Lab taught the module “Transportation Management” at the University of Lugano’s MASHLM program which prepares its graduates for the challenges of humanitarian logistics.

Logistics professionals spent two days in a seminar at the Chair of Logistics Management, and discussed topics and gained practical experience around purchasing and supplier management, digitalization, and retail distribution.

Building on several years of practice-based research, the Chair of Logistics Management launched the new Humanitarian Operations and Supply Chain Management Lab (HumOSCM Lab) at ETH Zurich to support organizations in the humanitarian sector.

The fifth time in a row, the recent “F.A.Z.-Ökonomenranking 2019” (ranking of economists) included Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner again as an influential economist in the category “research”.

Dr. Seongtae Kim – who was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Logistics Management for three years – takes up a new tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in Information Service Management (Logistics/Supply Chain Management) at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland.  

Alexander Fink, a research associate and Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of Logistics Management, placed 2nd in the 2018 Plattform für Innovation (PFI) “Young Innovators Professional” Award. Alexander received the award for his master’s thesis, conducted at the Chair during the 2017 fall semester.

Felix Bergmann represented the Chair of Logistics Management at the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Conference held at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre in Singapore on July 1-2, 2019

Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner and Dr. Alwin Locker organized, kicked-off, and moderated a conference on purchasing intelligence with procure.ch – the Swiss association for purchasing and supply management.  

The highly competitive paper of the year award was given to a team of ETH authors for their work where they used dynamic extreme value theory (EVT) to explore the links between internal control weaknesses and the severity of operational losses.  

In an interview for "Finanz und Wirtschaft", Prof. Dr. Stephan M. Wagner emphasized that supply chains cannot be adapted easily and quickly, and that it is an illusion that trade barriers help to regain innovative capabilities that now reside with outside and foreign suppliers.

Members of the Chair of Logistics Management hosted a group of logistics and supply chain managers for the highly regarded NetloP Seminar of the Kühne Foundation for a two-day seminar. The seminar involved class discussions and exciting company visits.  

A team from the Chair of Logistics Management was actively involved in numerous activities at the Production and Operations Management (POMS) Annual Conference which was held May 2-6, 2019 in Washington DC.  

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) was again ranked among the top-15 for empirically-focused supply chain management research.