Institute of Production and Logistics

Research Focus

The institute conducts problem-oriented and application-oriented research in accordance with the orientation of the BOKU and the development plan of the department. The Institute's publications and research projects focus on the following areas:

• Forest-wood supply chain
• Production management
• Sustainable transportation logistics
• Humanitarian logistics
• Food logistics
• Construction logistics

As a cross-sectional function, we also deal with the management of crises and disasters in the individual subject areas.

Our methodological expertise lies in the following areas:

• Event- and agent-based simulation and optimization
• Mathematical modelling of optimization problems
• Design and implementation of exact and (mat-, meta-)heuristic solution methods
• System dynamics modeling
• Process modeling