Teaching at the Institute of Production Management

Exercise sheets for these group exercises will be made available for download on Stud.IP each week, for each lecture date and topic.

• Helber, Stefan: Operations Management Tutorial, 2. Aufl. 2020

There are group exercises that are known as ‘learning rooms’. Students can work on exercises there and tutors are available to answer any questions they may have. In addition, there are group exercises in which the solutions to the exercises are presented. There are also Ilias tests that students can use to check whether their solutions are correct.

The course introduces the decision-making problems involved in designing operations processes and structures . It covers both the production of goods and the provision of services. The focus is on quantitative modeling of the key business relationships.

• Helber, Stefan: Operations Management Tutorial, 2. Aufl. 2020

A series of video clips explaining numerous lecture topics is available for this course. There is also a “Tutorial on Operations Management,” course number 270048. It serves to clarify any open questions that may have arisen while working on the weekly exercises.

This seminar covers basic models and algorithms of operations management at the bachelor's level and provides practice in writing a paper in preparation for a bachelor's thesis at the Institute for Production Management.

Will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Examiner: Prof. Dr. Helber

This course explains the methods and rules of scientific work. In addition, the course offers the opportunity to discuss specific questions, particularly with regard to seminar papers and bachelor's theses.

The materials are provided in the course "Seminar- und Abschlussarbeiten am Institut für Produktionswirtschaft”.

The course is recommended for anyone attending a seminar or writing a bachelor's thesis at the Institut für Produktionswirtschaft. It is not possible to earn ECTS credits.

The materials are made available via Stud.IP.

In the area of production logistics, we cover process analysis methods used to evaluate inventories, throughput times, and throughput rates, as well as methods for analyzing the performance of push vs. pull systems in production control. This is followed by inventory management methods in single-period and multi-period cases for individual products and aggregated warehouses as a whole. Furthermore, in the area of distribution logistics, issues of location planning and the planning of transports, round trips, and tours are covered.

Helber, Stefan: Operations Management Tutorial. Grundlagen der Modellierung und Analyse der betrieblichen Wertschöpfung. Hildesheim, 2. Auflage 2020

As part of the Operations Management colloquium, students who are writing their thesis in the area Operations Management present their progress during the course of their work. In the "Engineering and Business Administration" program, the presentations on the bachelor's theses are graded. In addition, open questions regarding methodology and content can be discussed during the course of the work. Furthermore, the institute's researchers report on ongoing research projects, in particular doctoral projects, as part of this colloquium.

This course explains the methods and rules of scientific work. In addition, the course offers the opportunity to discuss specific questions, particularly with regard to seminar papers and bachelor's theses.

The materials are provided in the course "Seminar- und Abschlussarbeiten am Institut für Produktionswirtschaft”.

The course is recommended for anyone attending a seminar or writing a bachelor's thesis at the Institut für Produktionswirtschaft. It is not possible to earn ECTS credits.

The materials are made available via Stud.IP.

This advanced Operations Research course centers around both the theoretical justification and the implementation of Branch-Cut-and-Price algorithms using the SCIP framework from the Zuse-Institut at the Technical University of Berlin. Implementation work will be done in C++. The course builds on the introductory course on Operations Research for first-semester Master's students and is intended as a methodological foundation for a Master's thesis in Operations Management. It requires substantial programming work and leads to a technical expertise which is highly valuable on the job market. This is a course for students with a good math and programming background interested in research in Operations Management.

Students in the "Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen" program can also participate in this course to gain credit points ("Leistungspunkte") for the module "Scientific Computing (10 LP)"!

Master’s students on the Engineering and Business Administration programme should note that only a non-editable registration is possible and that different registration forms must be used:

• Elective module “Operations Research II – Advanced Methods of Linear and Integer Programming” (376052) in the Information and Operations Management competence area:
  Registration form https://www.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/luh/content/pruefungsamt/formulare/wiing/Anmeldung_HA-SL_MSc_WiIng_PO_2018_Stand1125_-_Formular.pdf
  or
• Compulsory module "Scientific Computing" in the "Technical Fundamentals" competence area:
  Registration form https://www.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/luh/content/pruefungsamt/formulare/wiing/Scientific_Computing_neu.pdf

Im Seminar werden aktuelle wissenschaftliche Publikationen aus dem genannten Themenbereich behandelt. Dabei sind in der Regel algebraische Entscheidungsmodelle zu Problemen des Operations Management mit Python und Gurobi oder mit GAMS zu implementieren und experimentell zu analysieren.

Literatur wird zum Beginn der Veranstaltung bekanntgegeben.