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Examining dual-channel supply chains with visiting PhD Qiaoke Zhang

Qiaoke Zhang is a visiting Ph.D. student from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics who currently works with Prof. Benny Mantin. Her research centers around operational management in online retailing, including channel and selling format choice problem, and pricing, etc., by using game theory framework. Ms. Zhang explores questions of quality differentiation in dual-channel supply chains in a…

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A look back at the LCL pre-eXplore event

On 9 March the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management hosted a MIT SCALE-wide online event with representatives of the other four MIT SCALE centres worldwide: MIT CTL in the US, NISCI in China, CLI in Colombia and ZLC in Spain. Panellists shared their own experiences and discussed the topic: “The Covid pandemic…

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Make-or-buy decisions for industrial additive manufacturing

Anne Friedrich joined the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management as a Research and Development Specialist in 2021. At the LCL, she conducted joint research with Prof. Anne Lange on additive manufacturing technologies in the context of industrial supply chains. Her research has focused on the impact of additive manufacturing on strategic supply…

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Pricing of Renewable Power Purchase Agreements for Energy Procurement

Companies with large energy consumption are under pressure to reduce their carbon footprints. More than half of Fortune 500 companies have committed a fraction of their energy demand to be served by renewable energy sources. However, most companies cannot (or prefer not to) install renewable production on site, for example roof-top solar installations, but prefer…

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Job Opening in Supply Chain Management

The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to conduct research in Supply Chain Management and who will be working under the supervision of Prof. Benny Mantin.

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A new model to improve storage operations in electricity markets

The growing share of renewable power generation along with increasing demand for electric mobility changes electricity systems around the world. Challenges include unforeseen and costly imbalances created by fluctuations in renewable power supply that threaten grid stability as well as surges in demand from electric vehicles that lead to load curtailment and decrease transformer lifetime.…

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LCL pre-eXplore: MIT SCALE-wide event

On Wednesday, 9 March 2022, the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management will host the MIT SCALE-wide event with the directors of all 5 MIT SCALE centres.The directors of all five MIT SCALE centres worldwide will share their own experiences and join a panel discussion on the topic: The Covid pandemic and global supply…

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You Wu wins Best Student Paper Prize at European Aviation Conference

Short-term or long-term contracts? This is a question that constantly challenges asset providers as well as logistics service providers. Addressing this challenge, Ms. You Wu’s paper “Contracting strategies for price competing firms under uncertainty” comes to the rescue. The excellence of this paper has been well-recognised and recently it was awarded the Best Student Paper…

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LCL students win Grand Prize at MIT SCALE Supply Chain Research Expo

Harika Marisetti and Lakshmi Ravi’s Master thesis project “Economic Value Prediction of Multi-Echelon Safety Stock Optimisation Based on Supply Network Features”, supervised by Prof. Joachim Arts, took home the “Grand Prize” award at the 2022 MIT SCALE Supply Chain Research Expo.

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LCL welcomes its newest cohort of Master students

On 17 September 2021, the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) officially welcomed the 2021-2022 cohort of Master in Logistics and Supply Chain management students. This will be the fifth cohort of the one-year Master’s programme which began in 2016.

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