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Tim Sch­laich

Assistant Professor

Subjects
Decision-making Food Supply chain Logistics B2B Qualitative methods

Primary research areas

Sup­ply Chain Ana­lyt­ics
My re­search in sup­ply chain ana­lyt­ics ex­am­ines how emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies, nov­el data sources, and ad­vanced al­gorithms can en­hance de­cision-mak­ing across sup­ply chains. For in­stance, I ex­am­ine the value of com­puter vis­ion data in re­tail set­tings and the role of IoT-en­abled in­vent­ory in­form­a­tion in the ag­ri­cul­tur­al sec­tor.
En­tre­pren­eur­i­al Op­er­a­tions
My re­search on en­tre­pren­eur­i­al op­er­a­tions ex­plores the in­ter­sec­tion of sup­ply chain man­age­ment and entrepreneur­ship, with a par­tic­u­lar fo­cus on how en­tre­pren­eur­i­al firms build and ad­apt sup­ply chains in emer­ging in­dus­tries.

Trans­form­ing food sup­ply chains through tech­no­lo­gic­al in­nov­a­tion

Research focus 
 I conduct empirical research on supply chain analytics and entrepreneurial operations. Most of my work is carried out in collaboration with industry partners, particularly in the food sector, and places technological innovation at the center. 

 

My research helps: 

Transform the food sector by enabling efficient supply chains and novel business models 

Support firms in assessing and leveraging the value of new technologies 

Explain the behavioural and organizational barriers that hinder technology adoption 

Highlight the importance of supply chain and operations management for entrepreneurial firms 

Publications

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May 2024

When Is the Next Order?

Nowcasting Channel Inventories With Point-Of-Sales Data to Predict the Timing of Retail Orders

Tim Schlaich, Assistant Professor

Kai Hoberg
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March 2024

Creating Value From Additive Manufacturing

An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Firms Along the Value Chain

J. Jakob Heinen

Kai Hoberg

Tim Schlaich, Assistant Professor

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2020

A Gravity-Based Food Flow Model to Identify the Source of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks

Tim Schlaich, Assistant Professor

Abigail L. Horn

Marcel Fuhrmann

Hanno Friedrich
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