Current developments and trends are causing an increasingly turbulent environment for manufacturing companies. In order to respond to these dynamic market conditions, products and thus also production systems have to be ...

In several industries the concept of Microfactories has been developed and their potentials are still subject of research and development. Also in the Textile and Clothing Industry this concept of a digitally networked ...

The manufacturing industry is in the midst of a digital transformation. As part of the increasing internal and external integration of manufacturing companies, ever more significant volumes of data are being exchanged in ...

Logistics and supply chain management have undergone significant change due to technological changes in the recent years. The classic transport, handling and storage processes with a strict functional orientation have been ...

This paper presents a material requirements planning method that determines optimal safety stock levels using a heuristic optimization, based on a deterministic simulation of stock levels. Material requirements planning ...

This dissertation consists of three empirical studies contributing to the literature on tax planning and transfer pricing. The first study investigates the impact of U.S. state taxation on the geographical allocation of ...

The selection of manufacturing facility locations entails high costs and long-term consequences. This necessitates an objective approach to mitigate uncertainties associated with subjective decision-making. Our paper builds ...

Methods of machine learning (ML) are notoriously difficult for enterprises to employ productively. Data science is not a core skill of most companies, and acquiring external talent is expensive. Automated machine learning ...

For contract or make to order manufacturers, quotation costing is a complex process that is mainly performed based on experience. Due to the high diversity of the product range of these mostly small or medium-sized companies ...

While autonomous guided vehicle systems are increasingly used in homogeneous and structured environments, their use in complex and variable scenarios is usually limited. Established algorithms for the navigation of systems ...