Below some suggested research areas are displayed. A concrete topic will be developed individually. Additionally, we supervise practical theses which arise from the current research projects in cooperation with businesses. If you are interested in writing a thesis, just ask a member of the chair.

• Procedures for planned maintenance.
• Recent approaches for transport planning and transport management
• Models and methods for layout and location planning
• Handling and variant diversity: Approaches for efficient mass customization
• Planning and management: assembly line balancing
• Scheduling algorithms
• Approaches to support offshoring decisions
• Models and methods for dynamic lot-size planning
• Supply chain management and advanced planning systems
• Planning systems for business management
• Optimization of relational database systems
• Knowledge-based systems

In order to give you an idea of the topics that have been chosen in the past, you can find below a selection:

Bachelor-Thesis

• Requirements analysis and specification of a monitoring system for container circuits
• Development of an ATCS-based heuristic to minimize the weighted tardiness costs in the permutation flow shop problem with sequence-dependent set-up times
• Analysis of solution methods for the quay crane scheduling problem
• Development and evaluation of a genetic algorithm for sequence planning with order acceptance
• Consideration of delivery reliability when determining safety stocks of externally procured goods on the example of the Vaillant Group
• Analysis of solution procedures for the Multi-Level Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem with Setup-Times (MLCLSP-ST)
• Implementation and evaluation of Dixon's method for solving the capacitated lot size planning problem
• Projektcontrolling mit der Earned Value Analysis
• Project controlling with the Earned Value Analysis
• Analysis and assessment of current approaches to support offshoring decisions
• Sales forecasts for a student union cafeteria - a case study at the Wuppertal University Social Welfare Service at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• Column-oriented storage in relational databases
• Machine Learning in Digital Marketing
• Comparison of different solution techniques for the capacitated lot size planning problem with the model MLPLSP
• Approaches for shelf optimization
• Automated reporting of logistic processes for an international service company
• Evaluation of models for scheduling with delivery decisions

Master-Thesis

• Evaluation of the SAP workflow management system based on the prototype implementation of invoice verification in materials management
• Development and evaluation of a genetic algorithm for the capacitated lot size problem with sequence-dependent setup costs and times
• Overview and comparison of solution approaches for optimization problems of container logistics in terminals and modeling of an optimization problem for inland terminals
• Development and evaluation of a simulated annealing approach for sequence optimization in the container terminal
• Project knowledge management - challenges and barriers of knowledge management in projects and how to deal with them.
• Newer approaches to internal location planning with integrated transport route planning
• Proactive control approaches to the vehicle routing problem (VRP)
• Neighborhood operations for metaheuristics for lot size control
• Modellierung und Entwicklung von von Softwarefunktionstests in einem Projekt zur Optimierung von Lagerbewegungen in einem Containerterminal
• Modeling and development of software function tests in a project to optimize warehouse movements in a container terminal
• Evaluation of an optimization model for the creation of schedules for a gantry crane as well as the storage space allocation in a container terminal
• Conceptual modeling of a data mart in healthcare
• Social Project Management: Potential for influence and opportunities of social media in project management
• Big Data Analytics