Prof. Dr. Martin Grunow

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Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Grunow optimizes production systems and supply chains with data-driven methods from operations research, mathematics, and computer science. His research covers the automotive and electronics industry and various branches of the process industry, such as chemical, pharmaceutical, and food sector. His work ranges from AI-based real-time control of unit operations to the configuration of production and logistics systems and the robust design of global value chains with stochastic optimization.

Professor Grunow studied industrial engineering at TU Berlin, where he earned his PhD on the optimization of electronics assembly lines in 1999. He later conducted research at Degussa AG in Hanau, returning to TU Berlin to complete his postdoctoral teaching qualification (habilitation) in 2005. After several international appointments, he joined TU Denmark, where was head of the Operations Management Department as of 2006. In autumn 2010 he was appointed professor of production and supply chain management at TUM.

He teaches MOOCs on Quality Engineering and Lean with more than 350,000 participants from all over the world. Professor Grunow is head of the German Operation Research Society’s Supply Chain Management Section, a co-author of more than 50 publications in leading international research journals, a co-author of a textbook on Advanced Planning Systems as well as an editor of three international research journals.

Awards

  • Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Competition: Bronze Medal for the Best Online Course (out of 1350 applications) (2021)
  • International E-Learning Awards: Silver Medal (Runner-up) for Blended Learning (2021)
  • Finalist INFORMS Behavioral Operations Working Paper Award (with Frank Hage and Sebastian Schiffels) (2020)
  • IISE Transactions: Best Application Paper Award Design and Manufacturing: first honorable mention (with Daniel Tonke and Renzo Akkerman) (2020)
  • IISE Transactions: Best Paper Award: honourable mention (with Phillip Kriett) (2019)

Forel, A., Grunow, M.: "Dynamic stochastic lot sizing with forecast evolution in rolling-horizon planning". Production and Operations Management. 2023; 32(2): 449–468.

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Hottenrott, A., Schiffer, M., Grunow, M.: "Flexible assembly layouts in smart manufacturing: An impact assessment for the automotive industry". IISE Transactions. 2023; 55(11): 1144–1159. 

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Hottenrott, A., Waidner, L., Grunow, M.: "Robust car sequencing for automotive assembly". European Journal of Operational Research. 2021; 291(3): 983–994.

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Seitz, A., Grunow, M., Akkerman, R.: "Data driven supply allocation to individual customers considering forecast bias". International Journal of Production Economics. 2020; 227, 107683.

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Tonke, D., Grunow, M., Akkerman, R.: "Robotic-cell scheduling with pick-up constraints and uncertain processing times". IISE Transactions. 2019; 51(11): 1217–1235.

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