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Prof. Dr. Frank Herrmann

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Professor Dr. Frank Herrmann was born in Münster, Germany, and studied computer science and mathematics at RWTH Aachen University, where he received a diploma in computer science in 1989. During his time at the Fraunhofer Institut IITB in Karlsruhe, he received his PhD in 1996 on resource planning problems. From 1996 to 2003 he worked at SAP AG in various positions, most recently as director. In 2003 he became professor of production logistics at the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg. He researches algorithms and optimisation models for operational production planning and control.

He has been dean of the faculty since October 2022.

Dean of Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics

Teaching

Teaching areas

  • Quantitative methods in operational production planning and control
  • Business informatics

Lectures:

  • Current Lectures:
  • Production Planning and Control
  • Advanced Production Planning
  • Previous lectures: see here

Final theses

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Research

Research interests

For operational production planning and control:

  • Quantitative methods.
  • (Stochastic) optimisation (models and solution methods).
  • Simulation.
  • Case studies.

Laboratory(s)

  • LIP
  • Innovation Center for Production Logistics and Factory Planning (IPF)
  • Competence Center for Software Engineering (CC-SE)

Publications/Lectures/Memberships

Competences

  • Focus:
    • The main areas of projects and experience can be summarised by IT in logistics. The focus here is on planning problems and inventory management. On the one hand, the decision problems for production planning and control and, on the other, the logistics processes (i.e. warehousing and transport through to supply chain management) are considered. Suitable algorithms for this are offered in today's Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP systems), whose behaviour is controlled by parameters. It is well known that the quality of the business processes controlled by ERP systems depends on these algorithms and, above all, on the parameter settings. I am therefore working on the further development of existing algorithms and the optimisation of parameter settings.
    • As standard software is increasingly being used to control business processes, my application-oriented research takes into account the state of the art of standard software with regard to its technology and, above all, the business processes it can support. In any case, an application-orientated approach should also focus on the use of such systems. This leads to the consideration of operational issues as well as the selection and introduction of standard software.
    • Data processing systems are used in companies to provide information technology support for business processes. A consideration of IT in logistics is incomplete without taking the corresponding business processes into account. That is why the consideration of business process analysis, design and optimisation rounds off my main areas of work.
    • Processing of research projects within the framework of co-operative PhDs.
  • IT for companies