Program Director
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Furmans
The importance of logistics has increased tremendously in the last years, especially since companies focus on their core business and integrate more closely with their suppliers and customers. This creates new challenges for logistics, material handling and information processing. Based in his practical experience in logistics operations management and IT-systems design Prof. Furmans concentrates his research on models and methods for the design of logistic systems, linking economic aspects with an engineering background.
His research background covers stochastic models as well as simulation in the areas of production and distribution logistics. Project and research work in major industries (automotive, semiconductors, chemical, logistic services) as well as several publications, link his theoretical work to implementations. He is co-author of a standard work in Material-Handling-Systems-Design, member of the Scientific Association of Technical Logistics as well as the German Operations Research Society and Head of a VDI-working group on modeling methods.
Areas of Expertise
- Modeling of Supply Chains
Research Interests
- Finite Element Analysis of Material Handling Systems
- Enhancement of self organization in Traffic using I+K support services
- Cause and Effect in decentralized supply chains
- Simulation and Modeling of Logistic Systems
- Distribution Networks
- IT-Systems for Logistics
Memberships
- GOR
- VDI: chair of work group “Methods of Modeling”
Professional Career
- 1992 PH. D. (Dr.-Ing.) Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
- 1996 – 2003 Robert Bosch GmbH; Director of Logistics
- 2000 Doctorate of Science (Habilitation) Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
- 2003 Appointed Full Professor Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
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