Career
- Studied business administration at the University of Bielefeld, graduating with a degree in business administration and a doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.).
- After completing his studies, worked as a research assistant and assistant (University of Bielefeld, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg)
- Various teaching activities in the fields of accounting and finance as well as production and logistics
- Research in the field of planning and control concepts in material logistics and reverse logistics
- 1988 Joined Computer Associates as a Supply Chain Optimization Consultant in the software industry
- From 2000 functions as Team and Division Manager Business Consulting at the internationally oriented software companies SSA Global Technologies and Infor for the DACH and Southern and Eastern Europe regions; from 2004 in this function also member of the management boards of the activities of SSA and Infor in the DACH region
- At the same time, he joined the FHDW in Paderborn/Bielefeld in 2003 as a lecturer and part-time professor at the FHDW: Lectures in Finance
- Since 2011 at the FHDW in Paderborn/Bielefeld Head of the Department of Business Administration
- 2011 – 2023 Head of the FHDW in Bielefeld
Research and consulting focus
- Supply chain design, performance measurement and optimization
logistics processes - Planning and control concepts in production and logistics
- Use and selection of business software
- Risk management
- Company valuation, mergers & acquisitions
Selected publications
Measuring and improving planning stability of reorder-point lot-sizing policies, International Journal of Production Economics 30-31 (1993), pp. 167-178.
Planungsstabilität in der Material-Logistik, Physica-Verlag, Berlin – Heidelberg 1996.
Planning according to demand: “Advanced Planning and Scheduling”: Replacement or add on for the traditional PPS? it AV Industrielle Informationstechnik 1 (1999), pp. 33-34.
Agents support supply chain optimization – real-time analysis of production improves ERP processes, Computer@Produktion 4/5 (2000), pp. 42-43.
Intelligente Integration – Optimierung der Supply Chain, in Logistik heute 10 (2000), p. 59.
Lagermanagement, Handbuch Logistik, ed. by Arnold, H. Isermann, H. Kuhn and G. Tempelmeier, Berlin – Heidelberg 2002, pp. A 3-62 – A 3-77 (together with K. Inderfurth).
Supply Chain Event Management – Anforderungen an eine IT-Infrastruktur, Guest Lecture Series 2002 of the Fraunhofer IFF “Logistik als Arbeitsfeld der Zukunft”, edited by M. Schenk, Magdeburg 2002.
RFID gut integriert, Software in der Logistik – Schwerpunkt RFID: Anforderungen an WMS, ERP, TMS und SCM, ed. by M. ten Hompel, Munich 2005, pp. 84-86
