Prof. Dr. Stefan Betz

The Chair of Production Management and Controlling focuses its research on selected issues relating to the planning and control of inputs, throughputs and outputs of a production system.

In the context of procurement, the focus is on the target-oriented planning of procurement logistics, whereby the simultaneous optimisation of processes in transport and warehousing is sought. In the context of production, the focus of interest is on the modelling of real production management and logistics problems, with the aim of solving them on the basis of modern information and communication technologies. The relationships between the production industry and customers and suppliers are analysed in various supply chain management projects. On the one hand, attempts are being made to supplement the SCM concept with aspects of sustainability; on the other hand, the SCM concepts of industrial companies already known from the literature are to be transferred to service companies. Independently of this, the extent to which controlling concepts can be used equally effectively for industrial and service companies and what adjustments may need to be made will be analysed. Finally, the extent to which business management issues in production management and controlling can be solved more realistically if the fuzzy intervals known from fuzzy set theory are used for the relevant planned variables instead of hard data is also analysed.