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Overview

Stefan Minner is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily spans fields of Engineering and Business, Management and Accounting, with significant contributions in subfields such as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Information Systems, Automotive Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's research topics focus extensively on Supply Chain and Inventory Management, Transportation and Mobility Innovations, Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Transportation Planning and Optimization, Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization, and Urban and Freight Transport Logistics.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • International Journal of Production Research
  • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
  • Production and Operations Management

Some of their recent papers comprise:

  • "Combating Copycats in the Supply Chain with Permissioned Blockchain Technology," 2021, Production and Operations Management
  • "ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence: an exploratory study of key benefits and challenges in operations and supply chain management," 2023, International Journal of Production Research
  • "Typology and literature review on multiple supplier inventory control models," 2020, European Journal of Operational Research
  • "Data-Driven Optimization for Commodity Procurement Under Price Uncertainty," 2020, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • "Predictive and prescriptive performance of bike-sharing demand forecasts for inventory management," 2022, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies

Collaborations have prominently involved frequent co-authors such as Maximilian Schiffer, Tobias Crönert, Moritz Rettinger, Yihua Wang, and Pirmin Fontaine, each having multiple joint publications with the scientist, indicating sustained research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Multiple-supplier inventory models in supply chain management: A review

    Stefan Minner

  • Combating Copycats in the Supply Chain with Permissioned Blockchain Technology

    Bin Shen;Ciwei Dong;Stefan Minner

  • A review on supply chain contracting with information considerations: information updating and information asymmetry

    Bin Shen;Tsan Ming Choi;Stefan Minner

  • Strategic safety stocks in reverse logistics supply chains

    Stefan Minner

  • Safety stocks in multi-stage inventory systems under different service measures

    Karl Inderfurth;Stefan Minner

  • Manufacturing network configuration in supply chains with product recovery

    David Francas;Stefan Minner

  • Optimizing Trading Decisions for Hydro Storage Systems using Approximate Dual Dynamic Programming

    Nils Löhndorf;David Wozabal;Stefan Minner

  • A continuous time inventory model for a product recovery system with multiple options

    Rainer Kleber;Stefan Minner;Gudrun Kiesmüller

  • ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence: an exploratory study of key benefits and challenges in operations and supply chain management

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  • Do Random Errors Explain Newsvendor Behavior

    Mirko Kremer;Stefan Minner;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • Optimal control of production and remanufacturing in a simple recovery model with linear cost functions

    Stefan Minner;Rainer Kleber

  • Periodic review inventory-control for perishable products under service-level constraints

    Stefan Minner;Sandra Transchel

  • A typology and literature review on stochastic multi-echelon inventory models

    Ton de Kok;Christopher Grob;Marco Laumanns;Stefan Minner

  • Safety Stock Planning Under Causal Demand Forecasting

    Anna-Lena Beutel;Stefan Minner

  • Benders Decomposition for Discrete–Continuous Linear Bilevel Problems with application to traffic network design

    Pirmin Fontaine;Stefan Minner

  • Safety stock planning under causal demand forecasting

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  • Strategic Safety Stocks in Supply Chains

    Stefan Minner

  • Typology and literature review on multiple supplier inventory control models

    Josef Svoboda;Stefan Minner;Man Yao

  • A multiple sourcing inventory model under disruption risk

    Lena Silbermayr;Stefan Minner

  • An improved heuristic for deciding on emergency transshipments

    Stefan Minner;Edward A. Silver;David J. Robb

  • Machine and Labor Flexibility in Manufacturing Networks

    David Francas;Nils Löhndorf;Stefan Minner

  • Dynamic product acquisition in closed loop supply chains

    Stefan Minner;Gudrun P. Kiesmüller

  • An environmental analysis of the reverse supply chain of SLI batteries

    Giannis T Tsoulfas;Costas P Pappis;Stefan Minner

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. Silver
Edward A. Silver University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard F. Hartl
Richard F. Hartl University of Vienna
Martin Bichler
Martin Bichler Technical University of Munich
Ruud H. Teunter
Ruud H. Teunter University of Groningen
Karl Inderfurth
Karl Inderfurth Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf Ghent University
Daria Battini
Daria Battini University of Padua
Tsan-Ming Choi
Tsan-Ming Choi University of Liverpool
Michel Gendreau
Michel Gendreau Polytechnique Montréal
Rolf Drechsler
Rolf Drechsler University of Bremen

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