About the Lecture

E-commerce and its demand to quickly fulfill plenty small-sized customer orders greatly impacts the warehousing processes. For instance, unit loads of SKUs are broken down into isolated items which are spread all over the warehouse. Or automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are applied to accompany human order pickers. This talk describes some novel warehousing structures specifically dedicated for e-commerce, introduces the resulting picker routing problems and presents some novel solution algorithms.

About the Lecturer

Prof. Nils Boysen is the chairholder for Operations Management at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Previously, he was a software engineer and project leader at IBM Global Services from 2000-2002. After that, he was a Freelance software engineer at Peek & Cloppenburg from 2002-2004. He obtained his Ph.D degree from the University of Hamburg. His main research interests include Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Combinatorial Optimization.

Prof. Nils Boysen has authored more than 150 papers in INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science, European Journal of Operational Research(EJOR), Omega, IISE Transactions, etc. Currently, He is an Associate Editor of Transportation Science, OR Spectrum, EJOR and Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal. He won the Best Paper Award from IIE transactions in 2012, 2017, Harold W. Kuhn Award in 2018, Omega Best Paper Award in 2019 and EJOR Best Paper Award in 2020. In the ranking "The Top Researchers in Business Administration from Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2019", he is ranked 2nd for current research and 5th for lifework.