Digitisation

Institute for Supply Chain and Operations Management

Filed of Competence: Digitisation

Understanding

The catch phrases Digitisation and Industry 4.0 mean the increasing usage of information and communication technology in the context of operational services. For supply chain and operations management, there are various opportunities to optimise processes, increase productivity and support employees.

Courses

  • Potential analysis of digitisation
  • Implementation concepts for digitisation
  • Seminars on evaluating the opportunities and risks of digitisation for your own company
  • Workshops on the topic of digitisation (finding strategies, choosing technologies etc.)

Experience

  • Development of approaches to improve productivity through digitisation in industrial companies (collection of application fields and examples of digitisation in companies)
  • Conducting workshops to determine and implement digitisation measures in companies
  • Publications on practical/user-oriented assistance to implement digitisation

Selected theses

  • Surveys of company representatives on the usage of Industry 4.0 solutions and related productivity strategies in companies in German metal and electronical industry
  • Design recommendations for productivity strategies in consideration of company-specific goals and framework conditions and the possibilities of industry 4.0
  • Development of an survey-based maturity model for the application of industry 4.0
  • Effects of industry 4.0 on supply chain management
  • Effects of the industry 4.0 concept on methods of lean management
  • Application of the industry 4.0 concept to wind turbines
  • Purchasing in the digital age? Development and design possibilities of purchasing through digitisation
  • Critical analysis of the B2B procurement platform at … GmbH and the derivation of recommendation s for action
  • Optimisation of material flow by implementing a forklift control system at … GmbH
  • Approaches to process optimisation in procurement with help of e-procurement und e-sourcing

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