Gerd Jürgen Hahn (born 1981) is a German

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and

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for business economy. He holds an

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for Operations Management and Process Innovation at the German

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of Management and Law (GGS) in

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Life

After completing his

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at the commercial high school in Albstadt he, from 2001 onward, studied business economy at the

Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt The Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is a Roman Catholic research university in Eichstätt and Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. Compared to other German universities it is a rather small institution with 4,800 students in 2019; n ...

and at the University of Antwerp. He completed his studies in 2006. From 2007 until 2012 he worked as business consultant for

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

and in 2011 he earned his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. In 2013 Hahn was offered an endowed junior professorship for

Supply Chain Management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and stor ...

at the

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...

, which he accepted. Since April 2015 Hahn is professor for Operations Management and Process Innovation at the German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS) in Heilbronn. He is author of specialist articles, conference speeches and book contributions. He is also reviewer for a variety of specialist journals. His research focuses include value-centered Supply Chain Management, Robust Planning and Management of Production Systems, IT-Systems in Operations Management and Automotive Supply Chains. Hahn is a former scholar of the

German National Academic Foundation The German Academic Scholarship Foundation (German: , or ''Studienstiftung'' for short) is Germany's largest and most prestigious scholarship foundation. According to its statutes, it supports "the university education of young people who, on ac ...

and winner of the knowledge competition "Logistik Masters 2006" of the specialist journal VerkehrsRundschau. In 2010 he was awarded with the "Horst-Wildemann-Price for Innovative Management Concepts" by the science commission for production economy of the Society of economy professors in the category Best-Paper-Award for junior scientists. He is a member of various organizations, including the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), the Working Group Supply Chain Management at the

German Operations Research Society The Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR) is the professional non-profit society for the scientific field of Operations Research in Germany. The society is a member of the European umbrella organization, the Association of European Operation ...

(GOR), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB).

Publications (selection)

* A Perspective on Applications of In-memory Analytics in Supply Chain Management, Decision Support Systems, 76, 2015, S. 45–52, zus. mit J. Packowski. * The Merit of Combining Stochastic and Deterministic Models For Planning Decision Support Systems, in: Tempelmeier H. and H. Kuhn (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Operations, Ingolstadt, 2013, S. 239–246, together with N. Vandaele and C. Decouttere. * Designing Decision Support Systems for Value-based Management: A Survey and an Architecture, Decision Support Systems, 53 (3), 2012, S. 591–598, together with H. Kuhn. * Value-based Performance and Risk Management in Supply Chains: A Robust Optimization Approach, International Journal of Production Economics, 139 (1), 2012, S. 135–144, together with H. Kuhn. * Enhancing Aggregate Production Planning with an Integrated Stochastic Queuing Model, in: Klatte, D., Lüthi, H.-J. and K. Schmedders (Hrsg.), Operations Research Proceedings 2011, Berlin (Springer), 2012, S. 451–456, together with C. Kaiser, H. Kuhn, L. Perdu and N.J. Vandaele. * Optimising a Value-based Performance Indicator in Mid-term Sales and Operations Planning, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 62 (3), 2011, S. 515–525, together with H. Kuhn.

References

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