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Petra Hechler celebrates 25 year anniversary of employment

The prize is awarded each year at the annual conference of the German Society for Operations Research (GOR). It honors excellent young researchers for outstanding achievements in the field.

Applications possible between September 1st and September 15th through the central seminar allocation procedure at the department

The Chair of Management Science / Operations Research will offer a master's seminar entitled “Optimization for Modern Logistics and Mobility Concepts” in the upcoming winter term 2024/2025.

New publication of the Chair for Management Science/Operations Research

One major challenge in e-commerce warehouses is to pick a vast number of small orders from a large assortment under high time-pressure. Scattered storage, a warehousing strategy in which items of the same product are located at different positions within the warehouse, meets these requirements and is successfully implemented in many e-commerce warehouses worldwide. Still, reducing the travel times of pickers is a challenging task (even more so since products can be picked from multiple storage locations in scattered storage warehouses), such that a lot of research has been conducted on the so-called picker routing problem, aiming to find a shortest picking tour through a (scattered storage) warehouse.