Sandra Lechtenberg

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Assistant Professor at FH Münster

Supported by ever-increasing amounts of data and maturing technologies, big data analytics offers viable, promising improvements for various fields and applications. Supply chain analytics (SCA), the application of big data analytics to supply chain management, can enhance and innovate supply chain processes and services in most companies. To reap...

Road freight transport has become a vital part of today’s life, and its importance will only rise in the future due to developments such as increasing e-commerce orders. Transport planning has become more complex and has to deal with many difficulties such as demand volatility, high customer expectations, or the consideration of legal regulations....

Supply chain analytics (SCA) comprises a broad range of data analytics approaches, applied to value-adding use cases across the supply chain. We combine the results of a multivocal literature review (MLR) with survey results and find a varying relevance of SCA for different supply chain processes and analytics types. Additionally, gaps between lite...

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Goal. Today, digital technologies have significant effects on supply chains as companies explore and exploit their opportunities. Digital supply chains promise advantages over traditional ones. A maturity model is a helpful tool to assess the current state of digitalization in supply chains and to guide companies towards implementation. The main go...

Purpose: The bulk cargo shipping industry is characterized by high cost pressure. Chartering vessels at low prices is important to increase the margin of transporting cargo. This paper proposes a three-step, AI-based methodology to support this by forecasting the number of available ships in a region at a certain time. Methodology: Resulting from d...

Emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) show the potential to contribute significantly to the digitalization of supply chains. Nonetheless, the question which approaches from the field of AI are applied within supply chains as well as which supply chain problems or tasks are addressed with AI approaches has not been answered by scie...

Crisis management (CM) organizations regularly face the challenge to assess the potential impact of a change in their socio-technical setup. No matter if a new software, a new tool, a simple workflow or a broader organizational structure become available, CM organizations need to estimate the potential added value under a high degree of uncertainty...

Disaster situations lead to a high number of critical and complex decisions regarding disaster relief logistics, which need to be made under dynamic and often unknown circumstances. As this puts decision-makers under high pressure, there is a great need for high-quality decision support. Due to the specific characteristics of disaster relief logist...

Decision making in the area of humanitarian logistics and supply chain management often suffers because of the interrelations between planning horizons, tasks, and crisis management lifecycle phases. In this paper, we present a method, an exemplary prototypical implementation and its evaluation within a relief organization. Based on a structured li...

Logistics activities are of high importance for the success of a humanitarian operation and can be responsible for up to 80% of its costs. Vendor Managed Inventory, a concept successfully applied in commercial logistics, might be a possibility to enhance the effectiveness of humanitarian logistics operations. However, there is a lack of an appropri...

In this article we explore how pictograms and assessment categories used by crisis management organizations support the crisis communication with the affected population. In this field exercise simulating a flooding event the exemplary tool GDACSmobile was used to let volunteers report their observations to the crisis management center using a repo...